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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 opposite the temple of Hera near Mycenae was named Acraea for her.[4]
- Acraea and Acraeus are also epithets given to various goddesses and gods whose temples were situated upon hills, including Zeus, Hera,[5] Aphrodite,[6] Athena and Artemis.[7][8]
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acraea", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 14
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 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.