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  2. Pleione (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Pleione was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys who were the Titan God and Goddess of bodies of water. [3] Pleione was mother to seven daughters, known as the Pleiades. Their names were: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope and Merope. [3] She is often said to be the mother of Calypso with Atlas as well. [4]

  3. Pleiades (Greek mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Pleiades' parents were the Titan Atlas [5] and the Oceanid Pleione [6] born on Mount Cyllene. In some accounts, their mother was called Aethra, another Oceanid. [7] Aside from the above-mentioned sisters (the Hyades), the Pleiades' other siblings were Hyas and the nymph Calypso who was famous in the tale of Odysseus.

  4. List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan

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    She is also later then revealed to be a former Hesperid, daughter of Atlas and Pleione. She appears in The Titan’s Curse , along with being mentioned in The Battle of the Labyrinth , The Son of Neptune , The Blood of Olympus , The Dark Prophecy , and being seen in a flashback in The House of Hades .

  5. Atlas (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).. The etymology of the name Atlas is uncertain. Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, "hard, enduring", [9] which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλῆναι "to endure"; Doig offers the further ...

  6. Electra (Pleiad) - Wikipedia

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    No early source mentions their mother, but according to some late accounts she was the Oceanid Pleione. [5] Hyginus' De Astronomica says that Electra and her six sisters were called the Pleiades because, according to the 1st-century BC Greek scholar and historian Alexander Polyhistor, they were the daughters of Pleione. [6]

  7. Hyades (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Hyades were daughters of Atlas (by either Pleione or Aethra, one of the Oceanids) and sisters of Hyas in most tellings, although one version gives their parents as Hyas and Boeotia. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The Hyades are sisters to the Pleiades and the Hesperides .