1) Bright star in the Pleiades 2) Greek girl name 3) Halcyon 4) HR object 5) Multiple star system 6) Mythical being 7) Opera by Marin Marais 8) Queen in Greek mythology 9) Star of the Seven Sisters 10) Star in the Pleiades 11) Wind-powered vehicle
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In Greek mythology, Alcyone (i; Ἁλκυόνη, Halkyónē) was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale. She married Ceyx, son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star. They were very happy together in Trachis, and according to Pseudo-Apollodorus`s account, often sacrilegiously called each other `Zeus` and `Hera`. This angered Zeus, so wh...
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[Pleiades] Alcyone (iː; Alcyone) 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, Lycus, Hyperenor, and Aethusa; Hyperes and Anthas; Glaucus; and Epopeus. Ther...
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[opera] Alcyone is an opera by the French composer Marin Marais. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone as recounted by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The opera was first performed on 18 February 1706 by the Académie ro...
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[ship] The Alcyone is a ship operated by the Cousteau Society. It was created as an expedition ship and to test the operation of a new kind of marine propulsion system, the turbosail. The Alcyone`s two turbosails are used to augment its diesel engines. Since the accidental sinking of the Calypso, the Alcyone has been the Cousteau Society`s ...
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[star] Alcyone (η Tau, η Tauri, Eta Tauri) is a star system in the constellation Taurus. It is the brightest star in the Pleiades open cluster, which is a young cluster, aged at less than 50 million years. Alcyone is approximately 400 light years from Earth. It is named after the mythological figure Alcyone, one of the mythological Pleiad...
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(from the article `D`Annunzio, Gabriele`) ...major poetic work is the lyrical collection Laudi del cielo del mare della terra e degli eroi (1899; `In Praise of Sky, Sea, Earth, and Heroes`). ...
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(from the article `Pleiades`) ...and several hundred stars, of which six or seven can be seen by the unaided eye and have figured prominently in the myths and literature of many ...
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(from the article `Pleiades`) in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. ...
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(?al-SIGH-uh-nee?) daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx, whose ship was struck by a thunderbolt of Zeus after the couple began referring to themselves as Zeus and Hera. When the ghost of Ceyx informed his wife of his death, she drowned herself in the sea. The two were then turned into kingfishers, who lay eggs during the seven-day period of w...
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(Eta Tauri) The brightest star in the Pleiades and the only one to have a Bayer designation; it is also the third brightest star in the constellation Taurus. Alycone is actually a multiple star system. The primary, Alcyone A, is an eclipsing binary, consisting of two gian...
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In Greek mythology, Alcyone is the goddess of the sea, the moon, calm and tranquillity; She who brings life to death and death to life.
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Halcyon noun (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher
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One of several Pleiades.
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a third-magnitude star in the constellation Taurus: brightest star in the Pleiades. · a daughter of Aeolus who, with her husband, Ceyx, was transformed into a kingfisher.
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