{{Short description|Several figures in Greek mythology}} {{about||the trilobite genus|Agraulos}} {{distinguish|Agraulis vanillae}} '''Aglaurus''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|ɡ|l|ɔː|r|ə|s}}; {{langx|grc|Ἄγλαυρος}}) or '''Agraulus''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|ɡ|r|ɔː|l|ə|s}}; {{langx|grc|Ἄγραυλος}}) is a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology.<ref>Bell, p. 16.</ref>
*Aglaurus, the daughter of Actaeus, the first king of Attica. She married Cecrops and according to Apollodorus became the mother of Erysichthon, Agraulus, Herse, and Pandrosus;<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.14.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agraulus 3.14.2].</ref> other authors, however, including Pausanias and Hyginus, state that the eldest daughter of the couple is "Aglaurus" (see next entry), not "Agraulus".<ref>Frazer, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.14.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Agraulus#note1 note 1 to 3.14.2]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.2.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aglaurus 1.2.6]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#166 166].</ref> *Aglaurus, the daughter of Cecrops and the above Aglaurus, who was driven to suicide for ignoring a warning from the goddess Athena.<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.18.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aglaurus 1.18.2]</ref> *In the ''Fabulae'', attributed to Hyginus, Aglaurus is the child resulting from an incestuous relationship between Erectheus and his daughter Procris. This genealogy is otherwise unknown.<ref>''RE'', s.v. Aglauros, Agraulos (3); Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#253 253]</ref>
== Notes == {{reflist}}
== 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]. * Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. ABC-Clio. 1991. {{ISBN|9780874365818|0874365813}}. * 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]. * 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]. * ''Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft'', Band I, Halbband 1, edited by Georg Wissowa, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1893. [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Paulys_Realencyclop%C3%A4die_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft Wikisource].
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