Hilaeira
Sign in to saveright|thumb|The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Rubens right|thumb|Roman sarcophagus with Castor and Pollux seizing Phoebe and Hilaera, ca. 160. In Greek mythology, Hilaera (Ancient Greek: Ἱλάειρα; also Ilaeira) was a Messenian princess. Stephanus of Byzantium called her Elaeira (Ἐλάειρα).
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right|thumb|The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Rubens right|thumb|Roman sarcophagus with Castor and Pollux seizing Phoebe and Hilaera, ca. 160. In Greek mythology, Hilaera (Ancient Greek: Ἱλάειρα; also Ilaeira) was a Messenian princess. Stephanus of Byzantium called her Elaeira (Ἐλάειρα).
== Family == Hilaera was a daughter of Leucippus and Philodice, daughter of Inachus. She and her sister Phoebe are commonly referred to as Leucippides (that is, "daughters of Leucippus"). In another account, they were the daughters of Apollo. Hilaera married Castor and bore him a son, named either Anogon or Anaxis. According to one source, they had a daughter as well, Aulothoe.