Aegle

"Splendor." A sister of Phaethon, and a daughter of Helios and Clymene.1 Because of their grief at Phaeton's death she and her sisters were changed into poplars. See Heliades.

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References

Notes

  1. Fabulae, 154 ff.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.