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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Pleiades (mythology) (584 words) |
 | The Pleiades were nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together with the seven Hyades were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Bacchus. |
| However, the name Pleiades is more likely to come from πλεîν (to sail), because the Pleiades star cluster are visible in the Mediterranean at night during the summer, from the middle of May until the beginning of November, which coincided with the sailing season in antiquity. |
| In the Pleiades star cluster only six of the stars shine brightly, the seventh, Merope, shines dully because she is shamed for eternity for having an affair with a mortal. |
| Pleiades - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Pleiades (493 words) |
| Pleiades (plē`ədēz, plī`–), in astronomy, famous open star cluster star cluster, a group of stars near each other in space and resembling each other in certain characteristics that suggest a common origin for the group. |
| Pleiades, in Greek mythology, seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione. |
| According to one legend she became the lost Pleiad because of the shame she felt for having married a mortal. |
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