AUGE

[Greek heroic] The daughter of the king of Tegea. She became the mother of Telephus with Heracles and hid the child in the sacred forest of Athena. When the goddess send a famine over the land, the king had the child abandoned and sold Auge into slavery. She ended up in Mysia and married there King Teuthras. Telephus became later, in a rather miraculous fashion, Teuthras' successor for the throne.