In Greek mythology, Agave (; or 'high-born') may refer to the following characters: Agave or AgaueHyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Bunte; Schimdt) one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughter of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.Homer, Iliad 18.35; Hesiod, Theogony 240; Apollodorus, 1.2.7 Agave and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for Patroclus.Homer, Iliad 18.39-51 Agave, one of the Danaïdes, daughter of Danaus, king of Libya and Europa, a queen. She married Lycus, son of Aegyptus and Argyphia.Apollodorus, 2.1.5 Agave, daughter of CadmusApollodorus, 3.4.2 and mother of Pentheus Hyginus, Fabulae 239 and Epirus Parthenius, Love Romances 32. Agave, an Amazon.Hyginus, Fabulae 163
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