Auge

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Auge daughter of Aleus and Neaera, was a priestess of Athena. She had son by Herakles and concealed him in the temple of the goddess. In consequence of this profanation of the sanctuary, the country was visited by a scarcity; and when Aleus was informed by an oracle that the temple of Athena was profaned by something unholy, he searched and found the child in it, and ordered him to be exposed on mount Parthenion, where he was suckled by a stag (elaphos), whence the boy derived the name of Telephos. Auge was surrendered to Nauplios, who was to kill her, but he gave her to Teuthras, king of the Mysians, who made her his wife.

Compare her story with that of Io Kallisto, and Danae

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