One of the Harpy sisters in Greek mythology
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InGreek mythology ,Aello (/eɪ ˈ ɛ l oʊ Ancient Greek :Ἀελλώ ,Aellō means "storm" or "storm-swift" in ancient Greek) was one of theHarpy sisters who would abduct people and torture them on their way toTartarus .[ 1]
Aello was also referred to as:
As one of the Harpies, Aello was the daughter of the sea godThaumas and theOceanid Electra [ 6] [AI-generated source? (also calledOzomene [ 7] Ocypete andCelaeno , whereas other mentioned siblings wereIris , and possiblyArke [ 8] Hydaspes .[ 9] Typhoeus , father of these monsters,[ 10] Pontus (Sea) andGaea (Earth) or ofPoseidon , god of the sea.[ 11]
Aello was claimed to be the mother ofAchilles 's immortal steedsBalius andXanthus byZephyrus [ 12] Celaeno .
Homer'sIliad Quintus'Posthomerica "Xanthus and Balius, that flew swift as the winds,horses that the Harpy Podarge conceived to the West Wind [i.e. Zephyrus], as she grazed on the meadow beside the stream of Oceanus."[ 13]
"From wretched men, over the Ocean's streams,Over the Sea-queen's caverns, unto whereDivine Podarge bare that storm-foot twain [i.e. Xanthus and Balius] Begotten of the West-wind [i.e. Zephyros] clarion-voiced"[ 14]
According toOvid's Metamorphoses Aeneas ' company in their wanderings after the fall ofTroy :
"Wintry seas then tossed the heroic band, and in a treacherous harbor of those isles, called Strophades, Aello frightened them."[ 15]
Aello was also the name of one ofActaeon's dogs who destroyed their master when he was changed into a stag by the goddess of hunt,Artemis .[ 16]
^ Bell, Robert E. (1991).Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary . ABC-CLIO. p. 9.ISBN 9780874365818 ^ Apollodorus ,1.9.21 ;Hyginus ,Fabulae 14.3 ^ Homer ,Iliad 16.150 ^ Hyginus,Fabulae Preface ^ Apollodorus,1.9.21 ^ Hesiod ,Theogony 267 ; Apollodorus,1.2.6 ;Tzetzes adLycophron ,167 ^ Hyginus,Fabulae 14 ^ Ptolemy Hephaestion ,New History 6;Photius ,Bibliotheca 190 ^ Nonnus ,26.351ff. ^ Valerius Flaccus , 4.425^ Servius , Commentary on Virgil'sAeneid 3.241 ^ Homer,Iliad 16.149-151 &19.400 ;Quintus Smyrnaeus ,3.748-751 ^ Homer,Iliad 16.149-151 ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus,3.748-751 ^ Ovid ,Metamorphoses 13.709-710 ^ Ovid,Metamorphoses 3.219; Hyginus,Fabulae 181 Apollodorus ,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.ISBN 0-674-99135-4 .Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .Bell, Robert E.,Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary .ABC-Clio . 1991.ISBN 9780874365818 ,0874365813 . Gaius Julius Hyginus ,Fabulae 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. Gaius Valerius Flaccus ,Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.Online version at theio.com. Gaius Valerius Flaccus,Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Hesiod ,Theogony The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .Homer ,The Iliad ISBN 978-0674995796 .Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318 .Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Maurus Servius Honoratus ,In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .Nonnus of Panopolis ,Dionysiaca Online version at the Topos Text Project. Nonnus of Panopolis,Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Publius Ovidius Naso ,Metamorphoses Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Quintus Smyrnaeus ,The Fall of Troy Online version at Topos Text Project. Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy . Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Scholia toLycophron's Alexandra , marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881).Online version at the Topos Text Project. .Greek text available on Archive.org This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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