Aegina (mythology)
Aegina (/iˈdʒaɪnə/; Ancient Greek: Αἴγινα) was a figure of Greek mythology, the nymph of the island that bears her name, Aegina, lying in the Saronic Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos. The archaic Temple of Aphaea, the "Invisible Goddess", on the island was later subsumed by the cult of Athena. Aphaia (Ἀφαῖα) may be read as an attribute of Aegina that provides an epithet, or as a doublet of the goddess.
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Eponymous Nymph of Aegina | |
Attic red-figure pyxis showing Zeus chasing Aegina | |
| Abode | Phlius, later Aegina |
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| Parents | Asopus and Metope |
| Siblings | Salamis, Thebe, Corcyra, Tanagra, Thespia, Cleone, Peirene, Asopis, Ornea, Chalcis, Harpina, Ismene, Pelagon (or Pelasgus) and Ismenus |
| Consort | (1) Zeus, (2) Actor, (3) Ares |
| Offspring | (1) Aeacus and Damocrateia, (2) Menoetius, (3) Sinope |
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