Aglaea

Youngest of the three Charites (Graces), the goddesses of beauty, grace, and festive joy. Hesiod makes the Oceanid Eurynome bear them to Zeus — Aglaea (Splendour), Euphrosyne (Good Cheer), and Thalia (Festivity) — and names Aglaea the youngest, given in marriage to the smith-god Hephaestus (Hes. *Theog.* 907–911, 945–946). Her name, 'radiance,' marks her as the personified gleam of adornment and the glory that attends fine work and noble deeds. The Graces' oldest cult stood at Orchomenos in Boeotia, where Pausanias reports Eteocles as the first to sacrifice to three Graces (Paus. 9.35.1).