Categories: Disambiguation Maia, in Greek mythology, is the eldest of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. ... Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... This article is about Greek mythology. ... In Greek mythology, Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, and brother of Prometheus. ... Pleione is in Greek mythology, an Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. ... Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. ... The Greek Maia was identified in Roman mythology with Maia Maiestas (also called Fauna, Bona Dea (the Good Goddess) and Ops), a goddess who may be equivalent to an old Italic goddess of spring. ... In Roman mythology, Bona Dea (the good goddess) was a goddess of fertility, healing, virginity and women. ... A Sabine goddess, Ops (plenty) was a fertility deity and earth-goddess in Roman mythology. ... Italic can refer to: Italic languages Italic scripts Italic means Of or from Italy; the usage is most commonly restricted to talking about the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire. ... In ancient Greece and other early civilizations, astronomy consisted largely of astrometry, measuring positions of stars and planets in the sky. ... In astronomy, Maia (20 Tauri) is the third brightest of the seven bright stars in the Pleiades open star cluster. ... Taurus (♉) is one of the constellations of the zodiac, and its name is Latin for Bull. ... The Pleiades, dominated by hot blue stars surrounded by reflection nebulosity The Pleiades (pleye-a-deez or plee-a-deez, 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 gravitationally bound to each other. ... (This article is about the fantasy novel. ... For other definitions of fantasy, see fantasy (psychology). ... Richard George Adams (born May 9, 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire, England) is a British novelist who is best known for two novels with animal characters, Watership Down and The Plague Dogs. ... Death in Venice book cover The novella Death in Venice was written in German by Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... The Maiar are a fictional race from J. R. R. Tolkiens universe, Middle-earth. ... The Holy Ones (singular Ainu), the first beings created by Ilúvatar, the order of the Valar and Maiar, made before Eä. There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought. ... Maia Chiburdanidze Maia Chiburdanidze (born January 17, 1961) is a Georgian chess player. ... Many countries claim to have invented the chess game in some incipient form. ... A modern view of the ancient city of Porto, the city that gave the name to the country. ... There is also Ribeira Grande in Cape Verde, see Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde Ribeira Grande (Portuguese for large river) is a city on the southwest-central part of São Miguel Island in the Azores It has a population of 28,482 (as of 2001). ... Flag of Azores Shaded relief map of the Azores from 1975 The Azores (Portuguese: Açores) are an archipelago of Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America. ... Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, located in coastal Otago. ...