192.) She was the mother of Hyrieus and Aethusa by Poseidon. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.
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They all had children by gods (except Merope, who married Sisyphus).
Several of the most prominent male Olympian gods (including After Atlas was forced to carry the heavens on his shoulders, One of the most memorable myths involving the Pleiades is the story of how these sisters literally became stars, their And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas,The Pleiades would "flee mighty Orion and plunge into the misty deep" as they set in the West, which they would begin to do just before dawn during October–November, a good time of the year to lay up your ship after the fine summer weather and "remember to work the land"; in Mediterranean agriculture autumn is the time to plough and sow.
The Pleiades are the seven daughters of the Titan god Atlas and the ocean nymph Pleione. Fragm. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Pleiades, in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. Web.
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v. 171; Hygin. In Greek mythology the Seven Sisters (Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celaeno, and Sterope, names now assigned to individual stars), daughters of Atlas and Pleione, were changed into the stars.
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Fast. They were the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides.
The heliacal (near dawn) rising of the…
This deep and wide telescopic image spans over 20 light-years across the Pleides star cluster.
They were perhaps also half-sisters of the Hesperides, who were daughters of either Night alone, or Atlas and Hesperis (`evening'), or Ceto and Phorcys.
Together with the seven Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Dionysus. Pleione would famously become mother to seven daughters, the Pleiades, who were Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope and Merope.These nymph daughters of Pleione were famously chased by the hunter Orion, as well as several being lovers of Zeus and Poseidon. In Greek myth, the Pleiades were seven daughters of the astronomical titan Atlas and sea-nymph Pleione.