Acraea

Acraea

Acraea

Several individuals in Greek and Roman mythology

For the genus of butterflies, see Acraea (butterfly). For the ancient city, see Acraea (city).

Acraea (Ancient Greek: Ἀκραία means 'of the heights' from akraios) was a name that had several uses in Greek and Roman mythology.[1][2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acraea", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 14{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. [2]
    Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 3. ISBN 9780874365818.
  3. [3]
    Pausanias, 2.17.1
  4. [4]
    Pausanias, 2.17.2
  5. [5]
    Apollodorus, 1.9.28; Pausanias, 2.24.1
  6. [6]
    Pausanias, 1.1.3
  7. [7]
    Vitruvius, 1. 7
  8. [8]
    Ezechiel Spanheim, In Callimachi hymnos observationes, in Jov. 82.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Acraea". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Acraea, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.