Alcyone

Role: Pleiad · First appears: The Astronomy

In The Astronomy, Atlas fathered Alcyone and her sisters, the Pleiades: Teygata, Electra, Asterope, Celaeno, Maia, and Merope. In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Alcyone is named as the parent of Serus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Atlas fathered the Pleiades.(The Astronomy)
  • With: Atlas Teygata Electra Asterope Celaeno Maia Merope
  • “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”

The Astronomy

• parent: Atlas “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• child: Serus “And Serus was the son of Halirrhothius Perieres’ son, and of Alcyone.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.