Alcyone (Pleiades)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- For the star in the Pleiades cluster, see Alcyone (star).
Alcyone /ælˈsaɪəniː/ in Greek mythology is the name of one of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione or (more rarely) Aethra.
She attracted the attention of the god Poseidon and bore him several children, variously named in the sources: Hyrieus, Lykos, Hyperenor, and Aethusa (Apollodorus); Hyperes and Anthas (Pausanias); Glaucus (Athenaeus); and Epopeus (Hyginus). [1] [2]
[edit] References
M. Grant and J. Hazel, Who's Who in Greek Mythology, David McKay and Co Inc, 1979
