Aesyle (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aesyle (), also called Phaesyle ( derived from ), was one of the three or five Hyades, sisters that were rain-bringing nymphs. She was the sister of Eudora and AmbrosiaEustathius ad Iliad p. 1212 (p. 1155), Polyxo and Coronis,Hyginus, De astronomia 2.21.1 with Asclepiades as the authority and Cleeia and Phaeo.Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most, pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW. They were called the daughters of the Titan Atlas by either the Oceanids AethraHyginus, De astronomia 2.21.4 with Musaeus as the authority or Pleione,Hyginus, Fabulae 192 or of Hyas and Boeotia.Hyginus, De astronomia 2.21.4 with Alexander as the authority

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Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. . Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica 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.