Akraia
Akraia ( Greek Ἀκραία ), also Acräa , is a naiad of Greek mythology .
According to Pausanias , Akraia was a daughter of the river god Asterion and, together with her sisters Euboia and Prosymna, the nurse of the goddess Hera . The hill opposite the Heraion of Argos is named after her, the opposite hill after her sister Euboia and after Prosymna the landscape below the Heraion .
literature
- Julius Adolf Bernhard : Akraia 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 213 ( digitized version ).
- Gustav Hirschfeld : Akraia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 1192 f.
Web link
- Asterionids in the Theoi Project