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{{Short description|Name of several different figures in Greek mythology}}
'''Aegle''' ({{lang-grc|Αἴγλη}} "brightness" or "dazzling light") is the name of several different figures in [[Religion:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]]:<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bell|first=Robert E.|title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1991|isbn=9780874365818|pages=8}}</ref>
*Aegle, one of the daughters of [[Religion:Asclepius|Asclepius]] by Lampetia,<ref>Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'' 35.40.31</ref> the daughter of the [[Religion:Helios|Sun]], according to Hermippus.<ref>Hermippus, in Scholia in Aristophanes, ''Plutos'' 701</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation  | last = Greenhill  | first = William Alexander  | contribution = Aegle (5)  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology  | volume = 1  | pages = 27  | place = Boston  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0036.html  | access-date = 2007-10-19  | archive-date = 2007-09-06  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070906132727/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0036.html  | url-status = dead  }}</ref>
*Aegle, the most beautiful of the [[Unsolved:Naiad|Naiad]]s,<ref>Virgil, ''Eclogues'' 6.20</ref> daughter of [[Religion:Zeus|Zeus]] and [[Unsolved:Neaera (mythology)|Neaera]],<ref>{{cite DGRBM|title=Aegle (1)|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D6%3Aentry%3Daegle-bio-1}}</ref> by whom [[Religion:Helios|Helios]] begot the [[Religion:Charites|Charites]].<ref>Pausanias, 9.35.1</ref>
*Aegle, one of the [[Unsolved:Heliades|Heliades]], a sister of Phaeton, and daughter of [[Religion:Helios|Helios]] and [[Unsolved:Clymene (mythology)|Clymene]].<ref>[[Biography:Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 154 & 156</ref> In her grief at the death of her brother she and her sisters were changed into [[Biology:Populus|poplar]]s.
*Aegle, one of the [[Unsolved:Hesperides|Hesperides]].<ref>Apollodorus, 2.5.11; Servius ad Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 4.84</ref>
*Aegle, another name of Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas and lover of [[Unsolved:Apollo|Apollo]].<ref name="Isyllus, Hymn to Asclepius">Isyllus, ''Hymn to Asclepius'' [http://www.attalus.org/poetry/paeans.html#F 128.37 ff.]</ref>
*Aegle, was a daughter of Panopeus, the [[Place:Phocis (ancient region)|Phocian]] hero. She was said to be one who was beloved by Theseus, and for whom he forsook Ariadne.<ref>[[Philosophy:Plutarch|Plutarch]], ''Theseus'' 20; Athenaeus, 13, p. 557</ref><ref>{{Citation  | last = Schmitz  | first = Leonhard  | contribution = Aegle (1), (2), (3) and (4)  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology  | volume = 1  | pages = 27  | place = Boston  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0036.html  | access-date = 2007-10-19  | archive-date = 2007-09-06  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070906132727/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0036.html  | url-status = dead  }}</ref>
* Aegle, nurse of Dionysus, according to Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'' 14.221.

== 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==
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== 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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 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.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Athenaeus of Naucratis. ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. [[Company:ABC-Clio|ABC-Clio]]. 1991. {{ISBN|9780874365818|0874365813}}.
*[[Biography:Gaius Julius Hyginus|Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Maurus Servius Honoratus, ''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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0053 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* 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. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*Pliny the Elder, ''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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia.'' Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0138 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* [[Philosophy:Plutarch|Plutarch]], ''Lives'' with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0067 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0075 Greek text available from the same website].
* Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Eclogues''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1895. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0057 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics'', ''Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0056 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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