Kelaino (Pleiade)

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Kelaino ( Greek  Κελαινώ , Latin Celaeno , from κελαινός "dark") is one of the seven Pleiades in Greek mythology .

She is usually called the daughter of the titans Atlas and the Pleione . Hyginus , who also adopts this origin in his work de astronomia , names her in one of his fabulae daughter of Ergeus.

Generally she is regarded as the wife of Poseidon , with whom she has Lycus as a son. As another son from this connection, Hyginus names Nykteus . Akesandros knows Triton and Eurypylos , the king of Cyrene , as sons of Kelaino . Eurypylos is also named as a son in a Scholion at Apollonios of Rhodes . Johannes Tzetzes in his Scholien zur Alexandra knows as sons another Lycus and a son named Chimaireus , both fathered with Prometheus .

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Web links

  • Kelaino in the Theoi Project (English)

Remarks

  1. ^ Hyginus, De astronomia 2.21.
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157.
  3. ^ Hyginus, De astronomia 2.21.
  4. ^ Scholion zu Pindar , Pythische Oden 4,57.
  5. Johannes Tzetzes, Scholion zu Lykophrons Alexandra 132.