Agaue (daughter of Danaos)
Agaue ( Greek Ἀγαύη , "the venerable") is in Greek mythology one of the 50, Danaids , daughters of the Libyan , later Argive king Danaos . With Amymone , Automate and Skaia she is one of the four daughters Danaos sired with Europe . Like all daughters of Danaos, Agaue was married to one of the sons of Aegyptus and married Lykos . Like her sisters, with the exception of Hypermnestra, Agaue also murdered her husband on their wedding night.
Remarks
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 1, 5.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Agaue 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 99 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Knaack : Agaue 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 765.