Maia

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.8

Life events

• Zeus gave Arcas to Maia to raise and transformed Callisto into the star called the Bear.(Apollodorus, Library 3.8 · 📍 Arcadia)
  • With: Zeus Arcas Callisto
  • “When Callisto perished, Zeus snatched the babe, named it Arcas, and gave it to Maia to bring up in Arcadia ; and Callisto he turned into a star and called it the Bear.”
• Maia gave birth to Hermes in a cave of Cyllene.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10 · 📍 Cyllene)
  • With: Hermes Zeus
  • “Maia, the eldest, as the fruit of her intercourse with Zeus, gave birth to Hermes in a cave of Cyllene.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.8

• ward: Arcas “gave it to Maia to bring up in Arcadia”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• parent: Atlas “Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia , to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.”
• parent: Pleione “Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia , to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.”
• child: Hermes “Maia, the eldest, as the fruit of her intercourse with Zeus, gave birth to Hermes in a cave of Cyllene.”

Hesiod, Theogony 869-975

• child: Atlas “Maia, the daughter of Atlas”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.