The Pleiade, or Oceanid, Electra of Greek mythology was one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. These seven sisters are associated with the Pleiades star cluster. Greek mythology consists of a large collection of narratives detailing the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, which were first envisioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition. ... In Greek mythology, Atlas was a member of a race of giant gods known as Titans. ... Pleione is in Greek mythology, an Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. ... This article is about Greek mythology. ... The Pleiades are an open cluster dominated by hot blue stars surrounded by reflection nebulosity The Pleiades (also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters) is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. ... An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud, and are still loosely gravitationally bound to each other. ...

Electra was the wife of Corythus. She was seduced by Zeus and gave birth to Dardanus, who became the founder of Troy, ancestor of Priam and his house. According to one legend she was the lost Pleiade, disappearing in grief after the destruction of Troy. In Greek mythology, Oenone (wine woman) was the first wife of Paris. ... Statue of Zeus Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th-century engraving. ... In Greek mythology, Dardanus (burner up) was a son of Zeus by Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy Troy ( Ancient Greek Τροία Troia or Τροάς Troas also Ίλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, described in the Trojan War cycle, especially in the Iliad, one of the two Ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. ... In Greek mythology, Priam (Greek Πρίαμος) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War, and son of Laomedon. ...

She was called Atlantis by Ovid, personifying the family of Pleiades. Engraved frontispiece of George Sandyss 1632 London edition of Publius Ovidius Naso (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC â€“ Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. ...

Electra means 'amber', `shining', `bright'.

Electra was the mother of the Harpies and Iris by Thaumas. In Greek mythology, Harpies (robbers) were first beautiful winged women: Hesiod (Theogony) calls them as two lovely-haired creatures. ... In Greek mythology, Iris was the daughter of Thaumas and the ocean nymph Electra and one of the Oceanids (according to Hesiod), the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. ... In Greek mythology, Thaumas (wonder) was a sea god, son of Pontus and Gaia. ...