\b0 The daughter of King Cecrops of Athens, she was given custody, along with her sister \b \cf4 \ATXht10815 Herse
\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , of the basket in which \b \cf4 \ATXht6 Athena\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 had hidden \b \cf4 \ATXht10509 Erichthonius\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , born out of \b \cf4 \ATXht7 Hephaestus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 ' desire for the goddess and fecundated by the Earth. In s
pite of being warned not to open the basket, the two sisters wished to see the child, who appeared to them in the form of a serpent. Stricken with madness, Aglauros and Herse threw themselves from the Acropolis. There is another tradition which states th
at Aglauros was turned into a stone statue because she tried to come between Hermes and her sister.\par