Aglaurus
Template:About Template:Distinguish Aglaurus (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx) or Agraulus (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx) is a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology.<ref>Bell, p. 16.</ref>
- Aglaurus, the daughter of Actaeus, the first king of Attica. She married Cecrops and according to Apollodorus became the mother of Erysichthon, Agraulus, Herse, and Pandrosus;<ref>Apollodorus, 3.14.2.</ref> other authors, however, including Pausanias and Hyginus, state that the eldest daughter of the couple is "Aglaurus" (see next entry), not "Agraulus".<ref>Frazer, note 1 to 3.14.2; Pausanias, 1.2.6; Hyginus, Fabulae 166.</ref>
- Aglaurus, the daughter of Cecrops and the above Aglaurus, who was driven to suicide for ignoring a warning from the goddess Athena.<ref>Pausanias, 1.18.2</ref>
- Aglaurus, daughter of an incestuous relationship between Erectheus and his daughter Procris.<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 253</ref> Aglaurus is also known as Aglauros (most commonly), Aglaulos, Agraulus, Agravlos, or Agraulos. Agraulos ("countryside flute") was probably the original form of the name, with the r and l commonly switched to produce the prevalent Aglauros form.
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[edit]- Apollodorus, The Library with 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.
- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. Template:ISBN.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus, translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.