Aegle (Ancient Greek: Αἴγλη "brightness" or "dazzling light") is the name of several different figures in Greek mythology:[1]

Classical Literature Sources

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Aegle

Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Aigle or Aegle:

  • Hesiod, Catalogues of Women and Eoiae 76 (trans, Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
  • Hesiod, Doubtful Fragment 5 (trans, Evelyn-White) (Greek epic poetry C8th to C7th BC)
  • Anonymous, Paean of Dium (or Erythrae) 130 (Lyra Graeca trans. Edmonds 1927 Vol. 3 p. 483-485) (C6th BC to C5th BC)
  • Scholiast on Aeschylus, Fragments Eliades (Aeschylus trans. Weir Smtyh 1926 Vol 2 p. 402)
  • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1390 - 1451 (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC)
  • Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4. 1396 (The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius trans. Coleridge 1889 p. 195)
  • Virgil, Eclogue 6. 20 ff (trans. Fairclough) (Roman poetry C1st BC)
  • Scholiast on  P. Oxy. 4099, Mythological Compendium lns 6,13 (The Oxyrhynchus Papyri trans. Fowler 1995 Vol 61 p. 56) (Greek mythography C1st BC to 1stAD)
  • Pliny the Elder, Natural History 35. 40. 137 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st AD)
  • Lucan, Pharsalia 9. 358 ff (trans. Riley) (Roman poetry C1st AD)
  • Scholiast on Lucan, Pharsalia 9. 362 (The Pharsalia of Lucan trans. Riley 1853 p. 358)
  • Plutarch, Theseus 20. 1 ff (trans. Perrin) (Greek history C1st to C2nd AD)
  • Plutarch, Theseus 28. 2 ff
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 2. 5. 11 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 35. 5 ff (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
  • Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography C2nd AD)
  • Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 154
  • Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 156
  • Diogenes Laertius, Fragment 317 (Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta Arnim 1964 Vols 1 p.69) (Greek biography C3 AD)
  • Proclus, Proclus on the Timeus of Plato 4 (trans. T. Taylor) (Greek Philosophy C5 AD)
  • Scholiast on Proclus, Proclus on the Timeus of Plato 4 (Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato trans. T. Taylor 1820 Vol 2 p. 292)
  • Nonnos, Dionysiaca 14. 221 (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic poetry C5th AD)
  • Suidas s.v. Ἠπιόνη (trans. Hedlam in Herodas 1922 p. 176 ) (Greco-Byzantine Lexicon C10th AD)
  • Second Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum, 161 Aurea poma (ed. Bode) (Greek and Roman mythography C11th AD)
  • Third Vatican Mythographer, Scriptores rerum mythicarum 13 Hurcules 5.42 ff (ed. Bode) (Greek and Roman mythography C11th AD to C13th AD)

Notes

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  1. ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 8. ISBN 9780874365818.
  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, vol. 1, Boston, p. 27, archived from the original on 2007-09-06, retrieved 2007-10-19{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Virgil, Eclogues 6.20
  6. ^   Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aegle (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
  7. ^ Pausanias, 9.35.1
  8. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 154 & 156
  9. ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.11; Servius ad Virgil, Aeneid 4.84
  10. ^ Isyllus, Hymn to Asclepius 128.37 ff.
  11. ^ Plutarch, Theseus 20; Athenaeus, 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, vol. 1, Boston, p. 27, archived from the original on 2007-09-06, retrieved 2007-10-19{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ Nonnus, 14.221

References

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