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Alcyone
(2)
Parentage: Daughter of Atlas (1) and Pleione
Alternative parentage: Atlas (1) and Hesperis;
Atlas
(1) and Aethra (1);
Erechtheus;
Cadmus;
Queen of the
Amazons
Atlas (1) and Sterope (1)
Biographical
Along with Merope (1),
Electra (2),
Celaeno (1),
Maia, Sterope
(1), and Taygete,
Alcyone was one of the Pleiades, and was transformed into the Pleiades
constellation with her sisters.
By Poseidon, she begot Aethusa, Hyrieus
and Hyperenor. To these children Pausanias adds two others: Hyperes and
Anthas.
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Sources
1. Sir W. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1870.
2. Sir W. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1870.
3. P. Grimal. A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Oxford, England; Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990.
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