Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Celaeno.
The gallery
The Pleiades
Elihu Vedder, 1885
Vedder's Metropolitan Museum canvas gathers Atlas' seven star-daughters — among them Celaeno, the Pleiad Poseidon loved, mother of Lycus and sometimes of Eurypylus. Not the harpy of the same name, nor the crimson bird.
The Dance of the Pleiades (Star Lore of All Ages, plate)
After Elihu Vedder, 1911
Olcott's 1911 star-lore plate reproduces Vedder's circling sisters — Celaeno among the Seven who mark the sailor's calendar.
Study for "The Pleiades"
Elihu Vedder, c. 1885
Metropolitan Museum study for Vedder's Pleiades: Celaeno takes shape with her sisters in chalk and wash.
The Rising of the Pleiades (illustration to Hesiod)
John Flaxman, c. 1817 (1910 plate)
Flaxman's outline for Hesiod's Works and Days: the rising of the Pleiades — Celaeno's cluster as the farmer's signal to harvest.