Aglaura (polychaete)
Aglaura may refer to: * ''Aglaura'' (play), a play by Sir John Suckling set in Persia *An alternative name for the Greek mythological figures called Aglaulus * ''Aglaura'' (genus), a genus of hydrozoans in the family Rhopalonematidae *''Nessaea aglaura ''Nessaea aglaura'', the common olivewing, northern nessaea or Aglaura olivewing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republ ...

Aglaura (play)
''Aglaura'' is a late Caroline era stage play, written by Sir John Suckling. Several aspects of the play have led critics to treat it as a key development and a marker of the final decadent phase of English Renaissance drama. Performance Suckling's earliest play, ''Aglaura'' was staged in 1637 by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre — not because they thought it was a good play or a potential popular hit, but because Suckling subsidized its production, reportedly spending between £300 and £400. The acting company was paid with the production's lavish costumes (lace cuffs and ruffs made of cloth of silver and cloth of gold), a form of hand-me-down compensation that the King's men accepted only in the 1630s, at a time when the company's fortunes were in relative decline. (When the same company staged a revival of John Fletcher's ''The Faithful Shepherdess'' in 1634, they used the sumptuous costumes that had been created for Queen Henrietta Maria's masque of that y ...
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Aglaulus
Aglaurus (; grc, Ἄγλαυρος, , 'dewfall') or Agraulus (; grc, Ἄγραυλος, , 'rustic one') is a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology. *Aglaurus, an Athenian princess as the daughter of King Actaeus. She married Cecrops and became the mother of Erysichthon, Aglaurus (see below), Herse, and Pandrosus. * Aglaurus, also an Athenian princess as the daughter of Cecrops, who was driven to suicide for ignoring a warning from the goddess Athena. *Aglaurus, daughter of an incestuous relationship between Erectheus and his daughter Procris.Hyginus, ''Fabulae'253/ref> Aglaurus is also known as Aglauros (most commonly), Aglaulos, Agraulus, Agravlos, or Agraulos. ''Agraulos'' ("countryside flute") was probably the original form of the name, with the ''r'' and ''l'' commonly switched to produce the prevalent ''Aglauros'' form. Notes References * Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Vol ...
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Aglaura (genus)
''Aglaura'' is a monotypic genus of deep-sea hydrozoan in the family Rhopalonematidae. It is represented by the species ''Aglaura hemistoma''. It has a cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ... in tropical to temperate oceans. References Rhopalonematidae Cnidarians of the Atlantic Ocean Cnidarians of the Indian Ocean Cnidarians of the Pacific Ocean Animals described in 1810 Taxa named by Charles Alexandre Lesueur Taxa named by François Péron {{hydrozoa-stub ...
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