Pleiades (Greek mythology)

The Pleiades
The Pleiades
The Seven Star-nymph Sisters
	The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
Abode	Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia
Genealogy
Parents	(a) Atlas and (b) Pleione or; (c) Aethra
Siblings	(a,b,c) Hyades 1 include Dione or ; 2 includes Thyone and Prodice or ; 3 includes (i) Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis) and Philia or; (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Eudora and Ambrosia or ; 5 includes (i) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis), Phaeo and Eudora or; (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Eudora, Ambrosia and Polyxo or; (iii) Pytho, Synecho, Baccho, Cardie and Niseis ; (a,b,c) Hyas; (a,b) Calypso; (a) Hesperides (half-sisters)

The Pleiades (/ˈpliːədiːz, ˈpleɪ-, ˈplaɪ-/;^[1] ‹See Tfd›Greek: Πλειάδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [pleːádes]), were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt.^[2] Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the infant Dionysus. The Pleiades were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain.

^ "Pleiades". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
^ Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 18.486. This in turn cites the lost Epic Cycle. The scholiast to Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.53 also refers to Taygete as a friend of Artemis.

[1] "Pleiades". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.

[2] Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 18.486. This in turn cites the lost Epic Cycle. The scholiast to Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.53 also refers to Taygete as a friend of Artemis.

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The Pleiades
The Seven Star-nymph Sisters
The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
Abode	Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia
Genealogy
Parents	(a) Atlas and (b) Pleione or (c) Aethra
Siblings	(a,b,c) Hyades 1 include Dione or 2 includes Thyone and Prodice or 3 includes (i) Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis) and Philia or (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Eudora and Ambrosia or 5 includes (i) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis), Phaeo and Eudora or (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Eudora, Ambrosia and Polyxo or (iii) Pytho, Synecho, Baccho, Cardie and Niseis (a,b,c) Hyas (a,b) Calypso (a) Hesperides (half-sisters)