Hamilton, William; Kirk, Thomas: Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton: with engraved borders (London, 1814)

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known by his club and the skin of the Nemean
lion, upon which he is seated, is waiting ready to
receive the golden apples, which the daughters of
Atlas are about to offer him. This hero is with
a party of his Argonauts, with whom he landed
on the coast of Africa. The rest of his asso-
ciates are supposed by the painter to be on board
the Argo. In Plate XXVIII. Atlas is sitting
holding a sort of sceptre, the flower on the top
of which is indicative of the family of Uranus,
and the relationship, which connects them with
Jupiter. The daughters of Atlas were seven in
number; after their deaths they were placed among
the constellations, and called the Pleiades, from
one of the names of their mother, Pleione. As
six stars only appear, unless when the sky is
extremely clear, and then the seventh is dull, the
fable says, that six of the daughters were married
to gods, but the other, Merope, married a mortal,
Sisyphus, king of Corinth, and therefore she is
hidden. This is explained in a passage in the
fourth book of Ovid's Fasti.

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Hyginus gives the same account, but adds,
that others say it was Electra, another of the
daughters, who concealed herself through grief.
Inconsolable at the destruction of Troy, and