Acraea

The daughter of the river god Asterion. She and her sisters Prosymna and Euboea were the nurses of a young Hera. A hill opposite the temple of Hera near Mycenae derived its name from her.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 17.1-2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.