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{{Short description|Several individuals in Greek and Roman mythology}}
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'''Acraea''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Ἀκραία}} means 'of the heights' from ''akraios'') was a name that had several uses in [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology]].<ref>{{Citation  | last = Schmitz  | first = Leonhard  | contribution = Acraea  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]  | volume = 1  | pages = 14  | place = Boston, MA  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0023.html }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bell|first=Robert E.|title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1991|isbn=9780874365818|pages=3}}</ref>

* 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]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 2.17.1</ref> A hill opposite the temple of Hera near Mycenae was named Acraea for her.<ref>Pausanias, 2.17.2</ref>

* Acraea and [[Acraeus (mythology)|Acraeus]] are also epithets given to various goddesses and gods whose temples were situated upon hills, including [[Zeus]], [[Hera]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 1.9.28; Pausanias, 2.24.1</ref> [[Aphrodite]],<ref>Pausanias, 1.1.3</ref> [[Athena]] and [[Artemis]].<ref>[[Vitruvius]], 1. 7</ref><ref>[[Ezechiel Spanheim]], ''In Callimachi hymnos observationes, in Jov.'' 82.</ref>

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== References ==

* [[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. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. [[ABC-Clio]]. 1991. {{ISBN|9780874365818|0874365813}}.
*[[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. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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