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Maia , in ancient Greek religion, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes by Zeus. Maia is the daughter of Atlas and Pleione the Oceanid, and is the oldest of the seven Pleiades. They were born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, and are sometimes called mountain nymphs, oreads; Simonides of
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According to the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Zeus, in the dead of night, secretly made love to Maia, who avoided the company of the gods, in a cave of Cyllene. She became pregnant with...
See more• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University
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See more• Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. "Maia" p. 270
• Harry Thurston Peck, Harper's...
See moreIn ancient Roman religion and myth, Maia embodied the concept of growth, as her name was thought to be related to the comparative adjective maius,
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