Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Alcyone.
The gallery
The Pleiades
Elihu Vedder, 1885
Vedder's seven star-sisters include Alcyone — the Pleiad whose name also labels the cluster's brightest star. Not Alcyone wife of Ceyx, nor the Giant Alcyoneus.
The Dance of the Pleiades (Star Lore of All Ages, plate)
After Elihu Vedder, 1911
Olcott's plate after Vedder: Alcyone among the dancers — the Pleiad Poseidon loved, mother of Hyrieus in some catalogues.
Study for "The Pleiades"
Elihu Vedder, c. 1885
MET study for the Pleiades canvas — Alcyone as one face of the Seven Sisters before they harden into paint and star-names.
The Rising of the Pleiades (illustration to Hesiod)
John Flaxman, c. 1817 (1910 plate)
Flaxman on Hesiod's calendar: the Pleiades rise — Alcyone's cluster as the sign for reaping, not the halcyon bird of Ceyx.
In play
Alcyone (Pleiad)
One of the seven Pleiades; brightest star of the cluster bears her name — distinct from Alcyone of Trachis and from the Giant Alcyoneus.
Pleiades (Greek mythology)
Atlas' and Pleione's daughters — Alcyone among the seven transformed into the winter stars.