Aesyle (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aesyle, also called Phaesyle (Ancient Greek: Φαισυλη Phaisylê means 'shining' from phainô) was one of the three or five Hyades, sisters that were rain-bringing nymphs. She was the sister of Eudora and Ambrosia[1], Polyxo and Coronis,[2] and Cleeia and Phaeo.[3] They were called the daughters of the Titan Atlas by either the Oceanids Aethra[4] or Pleione,[5] or of Hyas and Boeotia.[6]

Notes
  1. Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 1156
  2. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.1 with Asclepiades as the authority
  3. Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most, pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
  4. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Musaeus as the authority
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae 192
  6. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Alexander as the authority

References
  • Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN 9780874365818, 0874365813.
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.


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