Taygete 
Taygete's father is Atlas and her mother is Pleione (the Oceanide). Her paternal grandparents are Iapetus and Clymene; her maternal grandparents are Oceanus and Tethys. She has eight sisters named Merope, Celaeno, Dione, Sterope, Alcyone, Maia, Electra and Electra. She has two half-brothers and two half-sisters, named Oenomaus, Pelops, Pasiphae and Pluto.General Notes
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TAYGETE, from whom Mount Taygetus in Laconia derived its name, was one of the Pleiades. By Zeus she became the mother of Lacedaemon, even though she fled from the god's embraces. Artemis tried to help by changing her into a cow, but Zeus found no problem with cows, bears, geese, swans, or other animals, and the question would really be one of whether he was willing to wait for Taygete to resume her original form or go right ahead with what was at hand. Whichever she chose, Lacedaemon was conceived. Still, Taygete felt obliged to Artemis and presented her with the famous Ceryneian hind with golden antlers that Heracles later captured as one of his labors. Lacedaemon became king of the region of his same name. He founded the sanctuary of the Charites between Sparta and Amyclae. Taygete was also called by some the mother of Eurotas by Myles. His mother was more oftern called Cleochareia.
[Apollodorus 3.10.1,3; Pausanias 3.1.2,18.7,20.2; Stephanus Byzantium, "Taygeton"; Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes 3.53; Hyginus, Fables 9,82; Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.174.]
They have a son named Lacedaemon.
They have a son named Myles.
They have a son named Eurotas.
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