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Sterope (Pleiad)

Summary

In Greek mythology, Sterope (/ˈstɛrəpiː/; Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, [sterópɛː], from στεροπή, steropē, lightning),[1] also called Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was one of the seven Pleiades.[2]

Alcyone
Member of the Pleiades
The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
Other namesAsterope
AbodeMt. Cyllene on Arcadia, later
Pisa in Elis
Personal information
ParentsAtlas and Pleione or Aethra
Siblings
(a) Pleiades
(b) Hyades
  • 1 include Dione or
  • 2 includes Thyone and Prodice or
  • 3 includes (i) Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis) and Philia or
    (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Eudora and Ambrosia or
  • 5 includes (i) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis), Phaeo and Eudora or
    (ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Eudora, Ambrosia and Polyxo or
    (iii) Pytho, Synecho, Baccho, Cardie and Niseis
(c) Hyas
Consort(i) Ares
(ii) Oenomaus
Children(i) Oenomaus and Evenus
(ii) Hippodamia
Statues of Sterope and Oenomaus, from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia

Biography edit

Asterope was the daughter of Atlas and Pleione, born to them at Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. She was the wife of King Oenomaus of Pisa, or according to some accounts, his mother by Ares.[3] Sterope was also credited to be the mother of Evenus (father of Marpessa) by the said Olympian god.[4]

Other Use edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "sterope". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Project, Tufts University. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
  2. ^ Pausanias, 5.10.5
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.1
  4. ^ Plutarch, Parallela minora 40

References edit

  • Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.