Hilaeira

"Softly-shining." A daughter of Leucippus, the king of Mycenae, and Philodice. She was a priestess of Artemis. The Dioscuri abducted her and her sister Phoebe, and married them. By Castor she is the mother of Anagon, Anaxis, or Aulothus. See Leucippides.

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References

Sources

  • Hyginus. Fabulae, 80.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 10.3; comp. Ovid. Fasti v, 700.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511.