The Mythic Pleiades Sisters
This is a snapshot introductions to the PLEIADES sisters from Greek Mythology. The Pleiades by Elihu Vedde Today, the name of the Pleiades is perhaps best known as a cluster of stars in the night’s sky, making up part of the Taurus constellation; these seven stars though, are named after seven sisters, the Pleiades of Greek mythology. Writers in antiquity would talk of seven Pleiades, mountain nymphs, thought to inhabit Ancient Greece. The seven Pleiades were the daughters of the Titan Atlas; and where a mother is named, they were the offspring of the Oceanid Pleione. Atlas was well-known for his beautiful offspring, and so the Pleiades were sisters to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and Hyas. The names of the seven Pleiades was general agreed up by ancient sources, with the seven sisters being; Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. The Role of the Pleiades In Ancient Greece, the role of the Pleiades was that of companions and attendants to the goddess of t