Aegle ( grc, Αἴγλη "brightness" or "dazzling light") is the name of several different figures in

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: *Aegle, one of the daughters of

Asclepius Asclepius (; grc-gre, Ἀσκληπιός ''Asklēpiós'' ; la, Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone. Asclepius represen ...

by Lampetia, the daughter of the Sun, according to

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. 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. *Aegle, the most beautiful of the

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s, daughter of

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and Neaera, by whom

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begot the

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. *Aegle, one of the

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, a sister of Phaeton, and daughter of

and Clymene. In her grief at the death of her brother she and her sisters were changed into poplars. *Aegle, one of the

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. *Aegle, another name of Coronis, daughter of

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and lover of

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. Isyllus, ''Hymn to Asclepius'
128.37 ff.
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hero. She was said to be one who was beloved by

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, and for whom he forsook

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Classical Literature Sources

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

References

* 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website
* 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
*Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. ABC-Clio. 1991. . *

Gaius Julius Hyginus Gaius Julius Hyginus (; 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' ''De Gramma ...

, ''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 Servius was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian. He earned a contemporary reputation as the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he authored a set of commentaries on the works of Virgil. These works, ''In tria Virg ...

, ''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
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* 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 Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ...

, '' 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 Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ...

, ''Lives'' with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1
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*

Publius Vergilius Maro Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the ...

, ''

Eclogues The ''Eclogues'' (; ), also called the ''Bucolics'', is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Background Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offer ...

''. 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
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