Apr 21
“a. Peleiades: "the Pleiades," says Callimachus (fr. 381 Schneider, II 572), that they were the daughters of the queen of the Amazons—seven in number—and were called both Pleiades and Peleiades. They were the first to establish choral dances and all-night festivals while still maidens. The sense is this: at the season when the Pleiades rise, the whole earth blooms with the plants of spring; at that time they used to make preparations for sailing. The names of the Pleiades are: Kokkyma, Glaucia, Protis, Parthenia, Maia, Stonychia, Lampado.”- Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 13, 25
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I love the idea of Hermes as the son of an Amazon princess
