Aora (mythology)

Template:Greek myth (nymph)In Greek mythology, Aora (Ancient Greek: Ἀώρας) was a nymph by whom the town of Aoros in Crete was named after.^[1] Aristocrats from the town of Eleutherna claimed descent from Aora and her husband Eleuther, one of the Kouretes.^[2]

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• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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