Acraea (Ancient Greek: means 'of the heights' from ''akraios'') was a name that had several uses in Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology.
* Acraea, the naiad daughter of the River gods (Greek mythology), river-god Asterion (god), Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Euboea (mythology), Euboea and Prosymna (mythology), Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera. A hill opposite the temple of Hera near Mycenae was named Acraea for her.
* Acraea and Acraeus (mythology), Acraeus are also epithets given to various goddesses and gods whose temples were situated upon hills, including Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis.
[Ezechiel Spanheim, ''In Callimachi hymnos observationes, in Jov.'' 82.]
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* Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website
*Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. ABC-Clio. 1991. .
*Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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