Maia

Maia
Maia
The Arcadian Pleiad Nymph
Member of the Pleiades
	Hermes and Maia, detail from an; Attic red-figure amphora (c. 500 BC)
Abode	Mount Cyllene, Arcadia
Genealogy
Parents	Atlas and Pleione or Aethra
Siblings	(a) Pleiades Electra ; Taygete ; Alcyone ; Celaeno ; Sterope ; Merope ; (b) Hyades 1 include Dione or ; 2 includes Thyone and Prodice or ; 3 includes (i) Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis) and Philia or; (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Eudora and Ambrosia or ; 5 includes (i) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis), Phaeo and Eudora or; (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Eudora, Ambrosia and Polyxo or; (iii) Pytho, Synecho, Baccho, Cardie and Niseis ; (c) Hyas
Consort	Zeus
Children	Hermes

Maia (/ˈmeɪ.ə, ˈmaɪ.ə/; Ancient Greek: Μαῖα; also spelled Maie, Μαίη; Latin: Maia),^[1] in ancient Greek religion and mythology, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes, one of the major Greek gods, by Zeus, the king of Olympus.^[2]

^ The alternate spelling Maja represents the intervocalic i as j, pronounced similarly to an initial y in English; hence Latin maior, "greater," in English became "major."
^ Homer, Odyssey 14.435; Apollodorus, 3.10.2; Horace, Odes 1.10.1 & 2.42 ff.; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 219

Maia
The Arcadian Pleiad Nymph
Member of the Pleiades
Hermes and Maia, detail from an Attic red-figure amphora (c. 500 BC)
Abode	Mount Cyllene, Arcadia
Genealogy
Parents	Atlas and Pleione or Aethra
Siblings	(a) Pleiades Electra Taygete Alcyone Celaeno Sterope Merope (b) Hyades 1 include Dione or 2 includes Thyone and Prodice or 3 includes (i) Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis) and Philia or (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Eudora and Ambrosia or 5 includes (i) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis), Phaeo and Eudora or (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Eudora, Ambrosia and Polyxo or (iii) Pytho, Synecho, Baccho, Cardie and Niseis (c) Hyas
Consort	Zeus
Children	Hermes