Aglaonice (Ἀγλαονίκη), daughter of Hegetor (Alexandrian physician 330/320 – 260/50 BC)

Played by Juliette Gréco

Cocteau introduces her to the narrative:

played by the black-clad exotic opposite of (Marie Déa) Eurydice: Juliette Gréco

wild hair, often flipped with abandon

drinking on our first encounter

she controls the inspector

League of Women, former work-place supervisor of Eurydice

“Orpheus married one of my former serving girls.”

Manager of the women’s club “Les Bacchantes”

lots of late-night drinking goes on there.

“I’ve forbideen her to enter my house”

“Aglaonice is dangerous.”

According to the editeur, Justice chooses not to intervene in inculcating Orpheus in the death of Cegeste.

Aglaonice’s followers are inciting the Cegeste fans. When Aglaonice arrives, they climb the wall and encounter Orpheus, fatally.

Drums beat wildly.

Aglaonike in Greek myth

according to Plutarch (Conjugalia Praecepta 48.145c), Aglaonike was one of the “witches of Thessaly”
“And if anybody professes power to pull down the moon from the sky, she will laugh at the ignorance and stupidity of women who believe these things, inasmuch as she herself is not unschooled in astronomy, and has read in the books about Aglaonice, ⁴ the daughter of Hegetor of Thessaly, and how she, through being thoroughly acquainted with the periods of the full moon when it is subject to eclipse, and, knowing beforehand the time when the moon was due to be overtaken by the earth's shadow, imposed upon the women, and made them all believe that she was drawing down the moon.” (Perseus translation)

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schol. Ap. Rhod. 4.59: Aglaonike was a witch was capable of bringing down the moon,

but she could also purify the moon in eclipses

cf. Plut. de def. or. 13.417a

IMDB.com: on Juliette Gréco: “Muse of the French existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Vian.

Born to a Corsican father and a mother active in the French Résistance, she was raised by her grandparents.”