Aegle (mythology)

Aegle (Ancient Greek: Αἴγλη "brightness" or "dazzling light") is the name of several different figures in Greek mythology:

• Aegle, one of the daughters of Asclepius by Epione, according to the Suda[1] or by Lampetia,[2] the daughter of the Sun, according to Hermippus.[3] Her name is said to have derived from "Αἴγλη" ("Aegle"), meaning "Brightness," or "Splendor," either from the beauty of the human body when in good health, or from the honor paid to the medical profession.[4]
• Aegle, the most beautiful of the Naiads, daughter of Zeus and Neaera,[5] by whom Helios begot the Charites.[6]
• Aegle, one of the Heliades, a sister of Phaeton, and daughter of Helios and Clymene.[7] In her grief at the death of her brother she and her sisters were changed into poplars.
• Aegle, one of the Hesperides.[8][9]
• Aegle, daughter of Panopeus, who was beloved by Theseus, and for whom he forsook Ariadne.[10][11][12]

Notes

1. Suda, s.v. Ἠπιόνη
2. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.40.31
3. Hermippus, in Scholia in Aristophanes, Plutos 701
4. Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Aegle (5)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 27
5. Virgil, Eclogues 6.20
6. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.35.1
7. Hyginus, Fabulae 154 & 156
8. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.11
9. Servius. Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, 4.84
10. Plutarch, Theseus 20
11. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13. p. 557
12. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Aegle (1), (2), (3) and (4)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 27

References

• Athenaeus of Naucratis. The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis. Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Plutarch, Lives with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Eclogues. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1895. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aegle". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.