Pleiades (disambiguation)

The Pleiades are an open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus. Pleiades may also refer to:

• Pleiades (Greek mythology), seven sisters of Greek mythology

Geography

• The Pleiades (volcano group), a group of volcanoes in Antarctica
• Les Pléiades, a mountain in Switzerland

Music

• Pléïades, a composition by Iannis Xenakis
• "Pleiades", a 1989 song by King's X from Gretchen Goes to Nebraska

Other uses

• Alexandrian Pleiad, Greek poets and tragedians in the 3rd century BC
• Pleiades (arcade game), a 1981 arcade game produced by Tehkan and Centuri
• Pleiades (magazine), an American magazine of fiction, poetry, essays, and book reviews
• Pleiades (satellite), an Earth-observation satellite programme operated by CNES
• Pleiades (supercomputer), a supercomputer at NASA's Ames Research Center
• Pleiades (wine), a wine produced by Sean Thackrey
• The Pleiades, characters in the novel series Overlord by Kugane Maruyama

See also

• Bibliothèque de la Pléiade or Pléiade editions, the standard editions of major works of (mostly) French literature published by Éditions Gallimard
• La Pléiade, a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets
• Pleiades in folklore and literature, interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures
• Peleiades
• All pages with titles containing Pleiades