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Ilaeira

Ἰλάειρα

(Ἰλάειρα), a daughter of Leucippus and Philodice, and a sister of Phoebe, together with whom she is often mentioned by the poets under the name of Leucippidae. Both were carried off by the Dioscuri, and llaeira became the wife of Castor. (Apollod.3.10.3; Schol. ad Lycoph. 511.)

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.