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In
Greek mythology , Aethra or Aithra (
Ancient Greek : Αἴθρα ,
romanized : Aíthra ,
lit. 'bright sky',
[1]
[2] pronounced
[ǎi̯tʰra] , ) was a name applied to four different individuals:
[3]
Aethra, name of one of the
Oceanids , the 3000 daughters of
Oceanus and
Tethys . She is sometimes called the wife of
Atlas and mother of the
Pleiades ,
Hyades (more usually the offspring of
Pleione ) and
Hyas .
[2]
[4]
[5]
Aethra (possibly same as above) is, in one source, called the wife of
Hyperion , rather than
Theia , and mother of
Helios ,
Eos , and
Selene .
[6]
Aethra , daughter of King
Pittheus of
Troezen and mother of
Theseus either by
Poseidon
[7] or
Aegeus .
[8] This is the same Aethra who went to Troy with Helen as one of her two handmaidens.
[9]
Aethra, wife of the
Spartan
Phalanthus . She fulfilled the prophecy given to her husband by her tears, after which he conquered
Tarentum for himself.
[10]
Notes
^
Robert Graves , The Greek Myths , (1955; 1960) index, s.v. "Aethra".
^
a
b Bane,
p. 13 .
^ Bell, pp. 10–13.
^ Bell, p. 13.
^
Pherecydes ,
fr. 90c (
Fowler 2013, p. 13);
Ovid ,
Fasti
5.171 ;
Hyginus , Fabulae
192 ,
De Astronomica 2.21;
Eustathius on
Homer ,
Iliad 1155
^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
^
Plutarch , Theseus 3; Hyginus, Fabulae
14
^
Apollodorus ,
3.15.7 ; Hyginus, Fabulae
37
^ Homer, Iliad 3.144
^
Pausanias , 10.10.6-8
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