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English
Proper noun
Ææa
- (Greek mythology) Archaic form of Aeaea.
19th century, Unknown, Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, page 67:Hence she is not merely the personification of the rosy morn, but also of twilight, for which reason her palace is placed in the west, on the island Ææa.
Anagrams
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Etymology
From Latin Ææa, attested in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /e.e.a/
Proper noun
Ææa f
- Archaic form of Aeaea.
- (Greek mythology) another name for various goddesses in Greek mythology
- Persa
1806, Ovide, translated by Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave, Les métamorphoses d’Ovide : Traduction nouvelle avec le texte latin suivie d’une analyse de l’explication des fables, volume II, F. Gay, Ch. Guestard, page 201:Persa, une des Océanides, surnommée Æa ou Ææa, du nom de la ville capitale de la Colchide, où elle régnoit.- Persa, one of the Oceanids, also known as Æa or Ææa, after the name of the capital city of Colchis, where she reigned.
- Circé (nymph)
1806, Ovide, translated by Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave, Les métamorphoses d’Ovide : Traduction nouvelle avec le texte latin suivie d’une analyse de l’explication des fables, volume II, F. Gay, Ch. Guestard:Ææa fut aussi le surnom de Circé, fille de Persa et du Soleil, sœur de Pasiphaé, et célèbre magicienne, dont Ovide parle dans le XIVe livre des Métaphores.- Ææa was also another name of Circé, daughter of Persa and the Sun, sister to Pasiphaë, and a famed sorceress, of whom Ovid speaks in the 14th book of his Metamorphoses.
- Calypso
- (Greek mythology) Circé (island)
- (Greek mythology) Circé (city)