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Short description: Various figures in Greek Mythology

In Greek mythology, Agave (/əˈɡv/; Ancient Greek: or 'high-born'[1]) may refer to the following characters:[2]

  • Agave or Agaue[3] one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughter of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[4][5][6] Agave and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for Patroclus.[7]
  • Agave, one of the Danaïdes, daughter of Danaus, king of Libya and Europa, a queen. She married Lycus, son of Aegyptus and Argyphia.[8]
  • Agave, daughter of Cadmus and mother of Pentheus.[9]
  • Agave, an Amazon.[10]

Notes

  1. Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. pp. Index s.v. Agave. ISBN 9780241983386. 
  2. Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. pp. 14–15. ISBN 9780874365818. 
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Bunte; Schimdt)
  4. Homer, Iliad 18.35; Hesiod, Theogony 240; Apollodorus, 1.2.7
  5. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 64. 
  6. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 15. ISBN 9780786471119. 
  7. Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
  8. Apollodorus, 2.1.5
  9. Apollodorus, 3.4.2
  10. Hyginus, Fabulae 163

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