In Greek mythology, Aesyle, also called Phaesyle (Ancient Greek: Φαισύλη Phaisúlē means 'shining' from phainô) was one of the three or five Hyades, sisters that were rain-bringing nymphs. She was the sister of Eudora and Ambrosia[1], Polyxo and Coronis,[2] and Cleeia and Phaeo.[3] They were called the daughters of the Titan Atlas by either the Oceanids Aethra[4] or Pleione,[5] or of Hyas and Boeotia.[6]
Notes
edit- ^ Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 1156
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.1 with Asclepiades as the authority
- ^ Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most, pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Musaeus as the authority
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 192
- ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Alexander as the authority
References
edit- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN 9780874365818, 0874365813.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica 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.
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