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- Part of
- Charites
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Hephaestus
- Child
- Philophrosyne
- Father
- Zeus
- Mother
- Eurynome
- Sibling
- Thalia
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- Description of Greece
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- Aglaea
- worshipped by
- Ancient Greek religion
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Aglaea (center), as depicted in Antonio Canova’s sculpture, The Three Graces.
In Greek mythology, Aglaia, Aglaïa (/əˈɡlaɪə/) or Aglaea (/əˈɡliːə/) (Ancient Greek: Ἀγλαΐα, romanized: Aglaiê, lit. 'festive radiance') is a goddess, one of the Charites (known as the Graces in Roman mythology). She is the goddess of splendor, brilliance and brightness.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aglaea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.