Agaue (nereid)

Agaue ( old Greek: Ἀγαύη, the venerable ) is in Greek mythology one of the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris and thus one of the Nereids . She is mentioned in the lists of names of the Nereids by Apollodor, Homer , Hesiod and Hyginus .

In the Dionysiaka of Nonnos it is described how she rides a fish over the waves during the flood sent by Zeus.

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1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 1,2,7ff.
2. ↑ Homer , Iliad 18: 38ff.
3. ↑ Hesiod , Theogony 240ff.
4. ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae Praefatio
5. ^ Nonnos : Dionysiaka VI. 257ff.

literature

• Georg Knaack : Agaue 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 765.