Electra the Pleiad
Greek · numen · primordial · Recorded classification
Numen — a Pleiad, daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione, dwelling on Samothrace. By Zeus she is the ancestress of the entire Trojan royal house: mother of Dardanus (founder of the Dardanians) and Iasion. The fully-divine, non-Olympian ancestress whose presence makes the Dardanid line compute divinity by blood — the canonical case the old parentage rule excluded. In Ovid she is the faded seventh star of the Pleiades, who covered her face rather than watch Troy burn.
Children
Domains
- stars
- samothracian mysteries
Powers
- Astral nature (a Pleiad star)
Relations
- lover: ZeusBore Zeus Dardanus and Iasion.Apollod. 3.12.1 (primary); Apollod. 3.12.1; Hes. cat. fr. 177 (primary)
- mother of: DardanusApollod. 3.12.1; Hellanicus FGrHist 4 F 23 (primary)