Acraea

Short description: Several individuals in Greek and Roman mythology

Acraea (Ancient Greek: Ἀκραία means 'of the heights' from akraios) was a name that had several uses in Greek and Roman mythology.^[1]^[2]

Acraea, the naiad daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Euboea and Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera.^[3] A hill Acraea opposite the temple of Hera near Mycenae derived its name from her.^[4]
Acraea and Acraeus are also epithets given to various goddesses and gods whose temples were situated upon hills, such as Zeus, Hera,^[5] Aphrodite,^[6] Athena, Artemis, and others.^[7]^[8]

Notes

↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acraea", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, pp. 14, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0023.html
↑ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. pp. 3. ISBN 9780874365818.
↑ Pausanias, 2.17.1
↑ Pausanias, 2.17.2
↑ Apollodorus, 1.9.28; Pausanias, 2.24.1
↑ Pausanias, 1.1.3
↑ Vitruvius, 1. 7
↑ Ezechiel Spanheim, In Callimachi hymnos observationes, in Jov. 82.

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN:9780874365818.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN:0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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

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[1] Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acraea", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, pp. 14, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0023.html

[2] Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. pp. 3. ISBN 9780874365818.

[3] Pausanias, 2.17.1

[4] Pausanias, 2.17.2

[5] Apollodorus, 1.9.28; Pausanias, 2.24.1

[6] Pausanias, 1.1.3

[7] Vitruvius, 1. 7

[8] Ezechiel Spanheim, In Callimachi hymnos observationes, in Jov. 82.