Acraea

For the genus of butterfly, see Acraea (genus).

Acraea (Greek: Ἀκραία) was a name that had several uses in Greek and Roman mythology.[1]

See also

References

  1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acraea", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston, MA, p. 14
  2. Pausanias, ii. 17. § 2
  3. Pausanias, i. 1. § 3, ii. 24. § 1
  4. Bibliotheca i. 9. §28
  5. Vitruv. i. 7
  6. Ezechiel Spanheim, In Callimachi hymnos observationes, in Jov. 82.

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