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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
The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
Lost Pleiad (1884) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Lost Pleiad (1884) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion
Apollo and Daphne
Apollo and Daphne
Maia
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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.
Pleiades (Greek mythology)
…including Zeus, Poseidon, and Ares) engaged in affairs with the seven heavenly sisters. These relationships resulted in the birth of their children. Maia, eldest of the seven Pleiades, was mother of Hermes by Zeus. Electra, mother of Dardanus and Iasion, by Zeus…
Hermes and Maia, detail from an Attic red-figure amphora (c. 500 BC)
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
Mercury and Maia inside a silver cup dedicated by the freedman P. Aelius Eutychus (late 2nd century AD), from a Gallo-Roman religious site