The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Maia

Also known as: bright Pleiad · Family: divine · Role: mother of Mercury · First appears: Fable 14

Fable 14

  • parent: Atlas “Maia was one of the seven daughters of Atlas”

Fable 26

  • child: Mercury (Maia is identified as Mercury's mother.) “The son of Maia the daughter of Atlas, observes them, and with his {usual} skill hides them, driven off, in the woods.”
  • parent: Atlas (Atlas is identified as Maia's father.) “The son of Maia the daughter of Atlas, observes them, and with his {usual} skill hides them, driven off, in the woods.”

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