Hyas (son of Atlas)
Hyas ( Greek Ὕας ) is in Greek mythology the son of Atlas and Pleione or Aithra , from whose connection - depending on the variant of the myth - 12 or 15 daughters had emerged.
While hunting in Libya , Hyas was killed by a lion or a snake or a boar. Five of his sisters died of grief, who were therefore called Hyades and whom the compassionate Zeus raised as Hyades under the stars . Her remaining 7 or 12 sisters later died for the same reason and seven of them became the Pleiades because they were more ( πλείους ), the seven stars of the northern sky.
swell
- Timaeus in the Scholion of Homer , Iliad 18,486
- Hygin , Fabulae 192; 248, 4; De astronomia 2, 21
- Ovid , Fasti 5, 181
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Hyas 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Col. 2766 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Gundel : Hyas 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, Col. 24 f.