Aegleis

Aegleis (Greek: Αἰγληίς) was a daughter of Hyacinthus who had emigrated from Lacedaemon to Athens. During the siege of Athens by Minos, in the reign of Aegeus, she was with her sisters Antheis, Lytaea, and Orthaea, were sacrificed on the tomb of Geraestus the Cyclops, for the purpose of averting a pestilence then raging at Athens.^[1][2]

See also

• List of Greek mythological figures

References

1. Bibliotheca iii. 15. § 8.
2. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Aegleis", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston, p. 27

Sources

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