Aglaé (Charity)

See also: Aglaé, Pasithée

Aglaé or Pasithée is youngest of the three Charites (Graces), goddesses of the pleasures of the life. It is the beauty in what it has dazzling moreover, the splendor . According to the authors, they bear different names and its legend varies somewhat.

Myth of Aglaé according to Hésiode

Aglaé passes, according to Hésiode, for the wife of Héphaïstos in the place of Aphrodite and also for the messenger of the latter.

Myth of Pasithée according to Homère

As for Homère (Iliade, XVIII, 382), he considers Charis rather as the wife of Héphaïstos and presents Pasithée like one of Charities, girl of Dionysos and Héra (Nonnos, Dionysiaca, XXI, 103). Héra promises it in marriage with the Sommeil provided that he wants to help it well to deaden Zeus. Pasithée chairs then the Hallucination S and the Hallucinogène S.

Sources

  • (I, 3,1).

  • (v.64 and 907).
  • (V, 338; XVIII, 382; XIV, 267), (VIII, 362; XVIII, 192).
  • (XXXI, 103).
  • (IX, 35,5).

See too


  • descriptive Card and extracted from ancient texts in connection with Pasithée on the Theoi.com site.
  • descriptive Card and extracted from ancient texts in connection with Aglaé on the Theoi.com site.

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