Pleione (mythology)
Pleione ( Greek Πληιόνη , Latinized Plione) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys , which is a Oceanid .
Pleione was the wife of the Titan Atlas and had seven children with him, the Pleiades . According to a popular version of the legend, these were named after that of their mother. In addition, Hyas and his sisters, the Hyades , are considered children of the Pleione. One version of the legend reports that the giant and hunter pursued Orion Pleione or her daughters, the Pleiades, out of lust. That is why the Pleiades fled from Orion, were transformed into stars by Zeus to save them and can be observed as "seven stars " in the sky. It is unclear whether Pleione herself and her daughters were taken to heaven. In other mythological sources, Pleione is referred to as Aithra .
See also the star of the same name Pleione .
literature
- Pleione. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , column 1128 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Ovid , Fasti 5, 83f.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 3, 110; Scholien zu Homer , Odyssey 5, 272.
- ↑ Scholien zu Homer, Iliad 18, 486 (ed. Bekker); Scholia to Apollonios of Rhodes 3, 225–227a.
- ↑ Scholien zu Hesiod , erga 383a; Hyginus , De astronomia 2, 21, based on Musaios; Hyginus, Fabulae 192 and 248.
- ↑ Athenaios 11, 490 d and f; Scholia to Apollonios of Rhodes 3, 225–227a.
- ↑ Scholien zu Homer, Iliad 18, 486 (ed.Bekker).
- ↑ Scholien zu Hesiod, erga 383a; Hyginus, De astronomia 2, 21.