The Pleiades are said to have made away with themselves from grief at the death of their sisters, the Hyades, or at the fate of their father, Atlas, and were afterwards placed as stars at the back of Taurus, where they form a cluster resembling a bunch of grapes, whence they were sometimes called botrus (Eustath. Some call the seventh Sterope, and relate that she became invisible from shame, because she alone among her sisters had had intercourse with a mortal man others call her Electra, and make her disappear from the choir of her sisters on account of her grief at the destruction of the house of Dardanus (Hygin. 25.) They were the sisters of the Hyades, and seven in number, six of whom are described as visible, and the seventh as invisible. PLEIADES (Pleiades or Peleiades), the Pleiads, are called daughters of Atlas by Pleione (or by the Oceanid Aethra, Eustath. TAYGETE, ELEKTRA, ALKYONE, STEROPE, KELAINO, MAIA, MEROPE (Hesiod Astronomy, Apollodorus 3.110, Aratus Phaenomena 254, Hyginus Fabulae 192, Hyginus Astronomica 2.21, Ovid Fasti 4.169, Nonnus Dionysiaca 3.330) ATLAS & AITHRA (Musaeus Frag, Hyginus Astronomica 2.21, Ovid Fasti 5.164) NAMES ATLAS & PLEIONE (Apollodorus 3.110, Hyginus Fabulae 192, Hyginus Astronomica 2.21, Ovid Fasti 4.169 & 5.79) ATLAS (Hesiod Astronomy Frag 1, Aeschylus Frag 172, Ovid Metamorphoses 6.172) Their name means "Daughters of Pleione" and also "Ladies of Plenty" from the Greek word pleiôn "plenty." When they were pursued by the lustful giant Orion, Zeus placed them amongst the stars as the constellation Pleiades. Five of the other Pleiades were also loved by gods becoming ancestresses of various royal families including those of Sparta and Troy. Their leader was Maia the mother of Hermes by Zeus. Quite a few scenes were added for Zhang Bo during filming to show the tougher side of Guangxu Emperor.THE PLEIADES were seven mountain- nymph daughters of the Titan Atlas. She also visited the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace in order to get a sense of how people lived back then. To play the role of Empress Dowager Cixi, Japanese actress Yūko Tanaka read about the history of the late Qing Dynasty. It is Zhang Meng's first Qing Dynasty drama. He learned Japanese so that it will be easier to act alongside the Japanese actors. He made a lot of preparation before filming, researching information on the Qing Dynasty and learning Japanese.
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