Aglaia, Aglaea, Aglaïa, Aglaja, or Aglaya (Ἀγλαΐα) is an ancient Greek female name and may refer to:
People and mythical figures
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Aglaia or Aglaea (mythology)
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Aglaia (Grace)
In Greek mythology, Aglaia, Aglaïa (), or Aglaea () (''Brill's New Pauly''s.v. Aglaea (1)) is a goddess, one of the Charites (known as the Graces in Roman mythology).
Family
According to Hesiod and other sources (including Apollodorus), Agl ...
, one of the Charites in Greek mythology
* Saint
Aglaia of Rome
Aglaia, Aglaea, Aglaïa, Aglaja, or Aglaya (Ἀγλαΐα) is an ancient Greek female name and may refer to:
People and mythical figures
* Aglaia or Aglaea (mythology)
** Aglaia (Grace), one of the Charites in Greek mythology
* Saint Aglaia o ...
, 4th century, a companion of
Saint Boniface of Tarsus
Science
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''Aglaia'' (plant), a genus of trees in the mahogany family
* ''
Drosophila aglaia
''Drosophila aglaia'' is an endangered species of fly from Hawaii. This species is a member of the ''aglaia'' subgroup of the picture-wing clade of Hawaiian Drosophilidae. It is only found on the island of Oahu, and has not been observed since 1 ...
'', an endangered species of fly from Hawaii
* The butterfly genus ''
Aglais
''Aglais'' is a Holarctic genus of Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies, containing the tortoiseshells. This genus is sometimes indicated as a subgenus of ''Nymphalis'' or simply being an unnecessary division from the genus ''Nymphalis'',Evans, ...
'' (Dalman, 1816)
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47 Aglaja
47 Aglaja is a large, dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Robert Luther on 15 September 1857 from Düsseldorf. The name was chosen by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn and refers to Aglaea, one of the Charites in ...
, an asteroid
Theatre
* ', a ballet by
Filippo Taglioni
Filippo Taglioni (aka Philippe Taglioni; 5 November 1777 – 11 February 1871) was an Italian dancer and choreographer and personal teacher to his own daughter, Romantic ballerina Marie Taglioni. (He had another child who also danced ballet ...
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* ''Aglaia'', an
opera by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Other uses
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Aglaia (given name) Aglaia is a feminine given name that comes from the ancient Greek Grace Aglaia (Ἀγλαΐα). It may also be written Aglaïa or sometimes as Aglaja, Aglaya, or Aglaea.
People named Aglaia include:
* Aglaia Anastasiou (born 1986), Greek swimmer
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* , an 18th-century British ship
See also
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Aglaja (disambiguation) Aglaja may refer to:
*An alternative form of Aglaia (given name)
** Aglaja Brix (born 1990), German actress
** Aglaja Orgeni (1841–1926), Hungarian opera singer
** Aglaya, a character in Dostoyevski's novel ''The Idiot''
* ''Aglaja'', 1893 oper ...
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Aglae (disambiguation)
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