Aglaurus, daughter of Cecrops

In Moses Hadas and John Mclean's 1960 Bantam Classics translation they have Euripides say: Later, speaking of "a haunt of Pan": In another version of the story, as told by the Bibliotheca, Hephaestus attempted to rape Athena but was unsuccessful.

Athena gave the baby in a box to three women — Aglaurus and her two sisters — and warned them to never open it.

[5] An alternative version of the same story is that, while Athena was away bringing a limestone mountain from the Pallene peninsula to use in the Acropolis, the sisters, minus Pandrosus again, opened the box.

A crow witnessed the opening and flew away to tell Athena, who fell into a rage and dropped the mountain (now Mt.

[7] It is in reference to this myth that Dante places her on the second terrace of Purgatory, alongside Cain, to serve as God's reins against jealousy.

One of the Attic demes (Agraule) derived its name from this heroine, and a festival and mysteries were celebrated at Athens in honor of her.

Aglaurus and her two sisters finding Erichthonius . Painting by Jasper van der Lanen , c. 1620.
Mercury, Herse and Aglaurus