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In ancient Greek mythology, Maia, also spelled Maie, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of the messenger god Hermes by Zeus.
Hermes and Maia, detail from an Attic red-figure amphora (c. 500 BC)
Mercury and Maia inside a silver cup dedicated by the freedman P. Aelius Eutychus (late 2nd century AD), from a Gallo-Roman religious site
Pleiades (Greek mythology)
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The Pleiades were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were sometimes called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, n
Maia
…In ancient Greek mythology, Maia (from Ancient Greek: Μαίη, lit. 'mother', 'nurse' or 'midwife'; pronounced or ), also spelled Maie, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of the messenger god Hermes by Zeus. Maia was identified with the Roman earth goddess Maia, the mother of Mercury…
The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
Lost Pleiad (1884) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
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