Aglaurus, Daughter of Cecrops. Aglaurus or Agraulus was in Greek mythology, an Athenian princess.
Aglaurus was the daughter of Cecrops and another Aglaurus, daughter of Actaeus. She had two offspring by two different gods, Alcippe and Ceryx.
There were numerous versions of her myth. Taking the earliest first, Euripides Ion, lines 22-23; 484-485, mentions her, but in the Moses Hadas and John Mclean 1960 Bantam Classics translation they have Euripides say respectively: gave Erichthonius to Aglaurus' daughters to keep.
and later, speaking ofa haunt of Pan : There the daughters of Aglaurus still tread the measures of their dance, on the green lawns before the shrine of Pallas. According to the Bibliotheca, Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena but was unsuccessful.
His semen fell on the ground, impregnating Gaia. Gaia did not want the infant Erichthonius, so she gave the baby to the goddess Athena. Athena gave the baby in a box to three women, Aglaurus and her two sisters Herse and Pandrosus, and warned them to never open it. Aglaurus and Herse opened the box. The sight of the infant caused them both to go insane and they threw themselves off the Acropolis, or, according to Hyginus, into the sea. An alternative version of the same story is that, while Athena was gone bringing a limestone mountain from the Pallene peninsula to use in the Acropolis, the sisters, minus Pandrosus again, opened the box. A crow witnesse
Aglaurus was the daughter of Cecrops and another Aglaurus, daughter of Actaeus. She had two offspring by two different gods, Alcippe and Ceryx.
There were numerous versions of her myth. Taking the earliest first, Euripides Ion, lines 22-23; 484-485, mentions her, but in the Moses Hadas and John Mclean 1960 Bantam Classics translation they have Euripides say respectively: gave Erichthonius to Aglaurus' daughters to keep.
and later, speaking ofa haunt of Pan : There the daughters of Aglaurus still tread the measures of their dance, on the green lawns before the shrine of Pallas. According to the Bibliotheca, Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena but was unsuccessful.
His semen fell on the ground, impregnating Gaia. Gaia did not want the infant Erichthonius, so she gave the baby to the goddess Athena. Athena gave the baby in a box to three women, Aglaurus and her two sisters Herse and Pandrosus, and warned them to never open it. Aglaurus and Herse opened the box. The sight of the infant caused them both to go insane and they threw themselves off the Acropolis, or, according to Hyginus, into the sea. An alternative version of the same story is that, while Athena was gone bringing a limestone mountain from the Pallene peninsula to use in the Acropolis, the sisters, minus Pandrosus again, opened the box. A crow witnesse
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