Aegle

"Splendor." The most beautiful of the naiades. She is a daughter of Zeus and Neaera,1 and according to Pausanias,2 the mother of the Charites by the Sun, i.e. Helios.

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References

Notes

  1. Virgil. Eclogues vi, 20.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 35.1.

Source

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