Erato (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Erato (/ˈɛrətoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Ἐρατώ "desired" or "lovely") was the name of the following individuals.

• Erato, one of the Nereids.[1][2]
• Erato, one of the Greek Muses.[3]
• Erato, one of the Nymphs Dodonides (Nysiades), nurses of Dionysus in Mount Nysa.[4]
• Erato, one of the daughters of Danaus and Polyxo. Under the command of their father, along with her sisters except Hypermnestra, Erato married and murdered her husband Bromios[5] or Eudaemon[6] at the night of their wedding.
• Erato (dryad), the wife of Arcas.[7]
• Erato, daughter of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Dynastes.[8]

For other uses, see Erato (disambiguation).

References

1. Hesiod. Theogony, 240ff.
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 1.2.7ff.
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 1.3.1.
4. Hyginus, Fabulae, 182
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.1.5
6. Hyginus. Fabulae, 170
7. Pausanias. Description of Greece, 8.4.2.
8. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.4.10, 2.7.8