The Pleiades (The Atlantids)
By Jimmy Joe
Genealogy:
- • Greek Pantheon
- • Aeolids 1 (Thessaly & Messenia)
- • Aeolids 2 (Corinth & Orchomenus)
- • House of Elis (Aeolids 4)
- • House of Calydon (Aeolids 3)
- • Lapith House of Thessaly
- • Early House of Argos
- • House of Argos (Proëtids and Aeolids)
- • House of Perseus (Mycenae and Tiryns)
- • Houses of Thebes & Crete
- • House of Pelops
- • House of Sparta
- • House of Odysseus
- • Descendants of Aeacus
- • Houses of Athens
- • Houses of Arcadia
- • House of Troy and Dardania
- • The Pleiades (The Atlantids)
- • Children of Helius
- • Houses of the Seers
- • Houses of the Rome
- • Giants and Monsters
- • Roman Pantheon
Pleiades
The Pleiades (Πλειάδες) were the seven daughters of Atlas and the Oceanid Pleïone (Pleione). However, Hyginus says in the Fabulae that Atlas and Pleïone originally had twelve daughters and a son named Hyas, and five of their daughters died grievin...
August 31st, 2002
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Orion and the Pleiades
The most famous story about the Pleiades was when Orion, the giant hunter, pursued them. Hyginus said that the Pleiades were travelling with their mother Pleïone through Boeotia when they encountered Orion. Lusting after the seven sisters, Orion t...
August 31st, 2002
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Jimmy Joe
Pleïone
Pleïone (Πληιόνη) was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She was married to Atlas, and became the mother of seven daughters who were known as the Pleiades. Apart from being the mother to the Pleiades, not much is known about Pleiades. Her daughte...
August 31st, 2002
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Jimmy Joe
Hyades
The Hyades were sisters of Hyas and the Pleiades. According to Hyginus in his work Fabulae, Atlas and Pleïone originally had 12 daughters and a son named Hyas (though in Poetica Astronomica, Hyginus contradicted himself, saying that there were 15 ...
August 31st, 2002
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Alcyone, Celaeno and Asterope
The other Pleiades' seduction by Poseidon and Ares was less interesting.Alcyone Poseidon seduced Alcyone (Ἀλκυόνη) who became the mother of Hyreis, Hyperenor and Aethusa.Celaeno Celaeno (Κελαινώ) had Poseidon as her lover as well, and became the m...
August 31st, 2002
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Jimmy Joe
Orion
Orion was a great hunter. Orion was the son of Poseidon and Euryale, the daughter of King Minos of Crete. Orion was a giant who could wade through the sea, with his head sticking out of the water. Another version said that Hyreius, the king of Thr...
June 1st, 2000
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Jimmy Joe
Atlas
Titan. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia. He was the brother of Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus. When his brother Prometheus tried to persuade him not to go to war against the Olympians, he did not listen. ...
April 19th, 1999
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Jimmy Joe
Taÿgete
One of the Pleiades; a daughter of Atlas and Pleïone. Taÿgete sought protection from the goddess Artemis. Artemis tried to hide Taÿgete by turning her into a doe with golden horns, but Zeus wasn't fooled by the disguise. Zeus ravished her while he...
August 31st, 2002
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Jimmy Joe
Merope
One of the Pleiades; a daughter of Atlas and Pleïone. Of all the Pleiades, only Merope had a mortal husband or lover: Sisyphus, king of Corinth. Merope was the mother of Glaucus, Ornytion, Thersander and Almus. On her husband's instructions, Merop...
August 31st, 2002
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Jimmy Joe
Asteria
Asteria was the daughter of the Titans Coeüs (Coeus) and Phoebe. She was the sister of Leto. Asteria married Perses and became mother of Hecate. Not long after her brother was imprisoned in Tartarus, Zeus fell in love with her. Zeus chased Phoebe,...
April 19th, 1999
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Jimmy Joe