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Aegle (Ancient Greek: Αἴγλη "brightness" or "dazzling light") is the name of several different figures in Greek mythology: [1] Aegle, one of the daughters of Asclepius . [ 2 ] 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 ...
Zeus and an eagle, krater (c. 560 BC), now in the Louvre In Greek mythology, Aëtos (Greek: Ἀετός, romanized: Aetós, lit. 'eagle') is an earth-born childhood companion of Zeus, the king of the gods, who served as the origin of the Eagle of Zeus, the most prominent symbol of the god of thunder.
2 Mythology. 3 References. ... Hygieia, Panacea, and Aegle. [3] Mythology. Aceso depicted with her father, Asclepios, and her siblings ... In Greek sculptural reliefs ...
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides (/ h ɛ ˈ s p ɛr ɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [hesperídes]) are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West".
Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Heliadae and Heliads" This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title=
Zeus and an eagle, krater (c. 560 BC), now in the Louvre Ptolemaic tetradrachm with the Eagle of Zeus, standing on a thunderbolt, on the obverse The Eagle of Zeus (Ancient Greek: ἀετός Διός, romanized: aetos Dios) was one of the chief attributes and personifications of Zeus, the head of the Olympian pantheon.
Greek text available from the same website. Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary, ABC-Clio, 1991. ISBN 978-0-874-36581-8. Internet Archive. Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 1, A-Ari, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill, 2002. ISBN 978-90-04-12258-1.
Aegle may refer to: Aegle (mythology), a number of characters from Greek mythology; 96 Aegle, an asteroid; Aegle, a genus of plants in the family Rutaceae; Aegle, a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae; Aegle, the Equatoguinean Academy of the Spanish Language (Spanish: Academia Ecuatoguineana de la Lengua Española)