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Eucleia, Euthenia, Eupheme, and Philophrosyne

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Eucleia (or Euclea),[1] Euthenia (or Eustheneia),[2] Eupheme,[3] and Philophrosyne[4] were, according to the fifth-century AD Greek Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus, the daughters of Hephaestus and Aglaia:[5]

... who render the corporeal-formed nature decorated with beauty.[6]

Proclus; translation by Thomas Taylor

Martin Litchfield West's includes this genealogy in his reconstruction of the Orphic Rhapsodies,[7] calling it "a new idea".[8] West describes these four sisters, as being among the several descendants of Zeus (such as Eunomia, Dike, Thalia, and Euphrosyne) who are "personified abstractions of an auspicious character."[9]

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