Erato
Ἐρατώ
(Ἐρατώ), a nymph and the wife of Areas, by whom she became the mother of Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan. She was said to have been a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan. (Paus. 8.27.9; ARCAS.) There are two other mythical personages of this name, the one a Muse and the other a Nereid. (Apollod. 1.3.1, 2.6; Hes. Th. 247.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.