In Greek mythology, Aethra or Aithra (,Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, (1955; 1960) index, s.v. "Aethra".Bane, p. 13. , , or , , ) was a name applied to four different individuals:Bell, pp. 10–13. Aethra, name of one of the Oceanids, the 3000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. She is sometimes called the wife of Atlas and mother of the Pleiades, Hyades (more usually the offspring of Pleione) and Hyas.Bell, p. 13.Pherecydes, fr. 90c (Fowler 2013, p. 13); Ovid, Fasti 5.171; Hyginus, Fabulae 192, De Astronomica 2.21.4; Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 1155 Aethra (possibly same as above) is, in one source, called the wife of Hyperion, rather than Theia, and mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene.Hyginus, Fabulae Preface Aethra, daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen and mother of Theseus either by PoseidonPlutarch, Theseus 3; Hyginus, Fabulae 14 or Aegeus.Apollodorus, 3.15.7; Hyginus, Fabulae 37 This is the same Aethra who went to Troy with Helen as one of her two handmaidens.Homer, Iliad 3.144 Aethra, wife of the Spartan Phalanthus. With her tears she fulfilled a prophecy given to her husband, after which he conquered Tarentum for himself.Pausanias, 10.10.6-8
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