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The Pleiades, is a cluster of stars identified by ancient atronomers, mentioned by Homer in about 750 B.C and Hesiod in about 700 B.C. Seven of the 12 stars are readily visible to the naked eye. The ancients named these stars the seven sisters: Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, and Tygeta. The Pleiades poetic form is aptly named: the seven lines can be said to represent the seven sisters.
