Aganippe (wife of Akrisios)
Aganippe ( ancient Greek Ἀγανίππη ) is the wife of Akrisios in Greek mythology and from him the mother of Danaë .
The wife of Akrisios is only mentioned in Hyginus Mythographus Aganippe, other authors instead give Eurydice , the daughter of Lacedaemon .
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Aganippe 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 98 ( digitized version ).
- Konrad Wernicke : Aganippe 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 731.