Atlas fathered the Hyades, nymphs who nursed the infant Dionysus on Mount Nysa and were placed among the stars in gratitude by Zeus.
⚠ Apollodorus (Bibliotheca 3.4.3) names their mother as Aethra, an Oceanid; Hyginus (Astronomica 2.21) names Pleione, making them full sisters of the Pleiades.
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