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Μαιρα

Transliteration Maira

Latin Spelling Maera

Translation Sparkling (marmairô)

MAIRA (Maera) was the nymph of the dog-star Seirios (Sirius) whose rising, in conjunction with the sun, brought on the scorching heat of midsummer. Like the Pleiades and Hyades, Maira was a starry daughter of the Titan Atlas. She was the wife of King Tegeates of Arkadia, the eponymous founder of the town Tegea.

PARENTS ATLAS (Pausanias 8.12.7 & 8.48.6)

OFFSPRING SKEPHROS, LEIMON, KYDON, ARKHEDIOS, GORTYS (by Tegeates) (Pausanias 8.53.2)

MAERA (Maira). A daughter of Atlas, was married to Tegeates, the son of Lycaon. Her tomb was shown both at Tegea and Mantineia in Arcadia. and Pausanias thinks that she was the same as the Maera whom Odysseus saw in Hades. (Paus. viii. 12. § 4, 48. § 4, 53. § 1; Völcker, Mythol. des Iapet. Geschl. p. 114.)