Atlas
First appears: The Astronomy
The Astronomy records Atlas as father of the Pleiades: Teygata, Electra, Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Maia, and Merope. In The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, the Pleiads are called “the daughters of Atlas.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Atlas fathered the Pleiades.(The Astronomy)
The Astronomy
- child: Teygata “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”
- child: Electra “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”
- child: Alcyone “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”
- child: Asterope “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”
- child: Celaeno “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”
- child: Maia “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”
- child: Merope “Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....”
Homeric Hymn XVIII · To Hermes
- child: Maia “He was born of Maia, the daughter of Atlas, when she had made with Zeus,—a shy goddess she.”
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2
- child: thepleiads “When the Pleiads, the daughters of Atlas, begin to rise begin the harvest, and begin ploughing ere they set.”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.