Aegle (mythology)
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Aegle(Ancient Greek:Αἴγλη"brightness" or "dazzling light" ) is the name of several different figures inGreek mythology:[1]
- Aegle, one of the daughters ofAsclepiusbyLampetia,[2]the daughter of theSun,according toHermippus.[3]Her name is said to have derived from "Αἴγλη" ( "Aegle" ), meaning "Brightness," or "Splendor," either from the beauty of the human body when in good health, or from the honor paid to the medical profession.[4]
- Aegle, the most beautiful of theNaiads,[5]daughter ofZeusandNeaera,[6]by whomHeliosbegot theCharites.[7]
- Aegle, one of theHeliades,a sister ofPhaeton,and daughter ofHeliosandClymene.[8]In her grief at the death of her brother she and her sisters were changed intopoplars.
- Aegle, one of theHesperides.[9]
- Aegle, another name ofCoronis,daughter ofPhlegyasand lover ofApollo.[10]
- Aegle, was a daughter ofPanopeus,thePhocianhero. She was said to be one who was beloved byTheseus,and for whom he forsookAriadne.[11][12]
- Aegle, nurse of Dionysus[13]
Classical Literature Sources[edit]
Aegle
Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Aigle or Aegle:
- Hesiod,Catalogues of Women and Eoiae76 (trans, Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
- Hesiod, Doubtful Fragment 5 (trans, Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
- Anonymous, Paean of Dium (or Erythrae) 130 (Lyra Graecatrans. Edmonds 1927 Vol. 3 p. 483-485) (C6th BC to C5th BC)
- Scholiast on Aeschylus, FragmentsEliades(Aeschylustrans. Weir Smtyh 1926 Vol 2 p. 402)
- Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica4. 1390 - 1451 (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC)
- Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica4. 1396 (The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodiustrans. Coleridge 1889 p. 195)
- Virgil,Eclogue6. 20 ff (trans. Fairclough) (Roman poetry C1st BC)
- Scholiast on P. Oxy. 4099,Mythological Compendiumlns 6,13 (The Oxyrhynchus Papyritrans. Fowler 1995 Vol 61 p. 56) (Greek mythography C1st BC to 1stAD)
- Pliny the Elder,Natural History35. 40. 137 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st AD)
- Lucan,Pharsalia9. 358 ff (trans. Riley) (Roman poetry C1st AD)
- Scholiast on Lucan,Pharsalia9. 362 (The Pharsalia of Lucantrans. Riley 1853 p. 358)
- Plutarch,Theseus20. 1 ff (trans. Perrin) (Greek history C1st to C2nd AD)
- Plutarch,Theseus28. 2 ff
- Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Library2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
- Pausanias,Description of Greece9. 35. 5 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
- Pseudo-Hyginus,FabulaePreface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography C2nd AD)
- Pseudo-Hyginus,Fabulae154
- Pseudo-Hyginus,Fabulae156
- Diogenes Laertius, Fragment 317 (Stoicorum Veterum FragmentaArnim 1964 Vols 1 p.69) (Greek biography C3 AD)
- Proclus,Proclus on the Timeus of Plato4 (trans. T. Taylor) (Greek Philosophy C5 AD)
- Scholiast on Proclus,Proclus on the Timeus of Plato4 (Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Platotrans. T. Taylor 1820 Vol 2 p. 292)
- Nonnos,Dionysiaca14. 221 (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry C5th AD)
- Suidas s.v. Ἠπιόνη (trans. Hedlam inHerodas1922 p. 176 ) (Greco-Byzantine Lexicon C10th AD)
- Second Vatican Mythographer,Scriptores rerum mythicarum,161 Aurea poma (ed. Bode) (Greek and Roman mythography C11th AD)
- Third Vatican Mythographer,Scriptores rerum mythicarum13 Hurcules 5.42 ff (ed. Bode) (Greek and Roman mythography C11th AD to C13th AD)
Notes[edit]
- ^Bell, Robert E. (1991).Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary.ABC-CLIO. p. 8.ISBN9780874365818.
- ^Pliny the Elder,Naturalis Historia35.40.31
- ^Hermippus,inScholiainAristophanes,Plutos701
- ^Greenhill, William Alexander (1867),"Aegle (5)",in Smith, William (ed.),Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,vol. 1, Boston, p. 27, archived fromthe originalon 2007-09-06,retrieved2007-10-19
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Smith, William,ed. (1870)."Aegle (1)".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
- ^Pausanias,9.35.1
- ^Hyginus,Fabulae154&156
- ^Apollodorus,2.5.11;Serviusad Virgil,Aeneid4.84
- ^Isyllus,Hymn to Asclepius128.37 ff.
- ^Plutarch,Theseus20;Athenaeus,13, p. 557
- ^Schmitz, Leonhard (1867),"Aegle (1), (2), (3) and (4)",in Smith, William (ed.),Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,vol. 1, Boston, p. 27, archived fromthe originalon 2007-09-06,retrieved2007-10-19
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References[edit]
- Apollodorus,The Librarywith an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis.The Deipnosophistsor Banquet of the Learned.London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis.Deipnosophistae.Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Bell, Robert E.,Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary.ABC-Clio.1991.ISBN9780874365818,0874365813.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginustranslated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Maurus Servius Honoratus,In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii;recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pliny the Elder,The Natural History.John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pliny the Elder,Naturalis Historia.Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Plutarch,Liveswith an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Publius Vergilius Maro,Eclogues.J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1895.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro,Bucolics,Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil.J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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