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Sterope (;
Ancient Greek : Στερόπη,
[sterópɛː] , from στεροπή , steropē , lightning)
[1] was the name of several individuals in
Greek mythology :
Sterope (or
Asterope ), one of the
Pleiades and the wife of
Oenomaus (or his mother by
Ares ).
[2]
Sterope, a
Pleuronian princess as the daughter of King
Pleuron and
Xanthippe . She was the sister of
Agenor ,
Stratonice and
Laophonte .
[3]
Sterope, a
Calydonian princess as the daughter of King
Porthaon and
Euryte or
Laothoe .
[4] She was the sister of
Oeneus ,
Agrius ,
Melas ,
Leucopeus ,
Stratonice and
Eurythemiste . Sterope was sometimes said to be the mother of the
Sirens by
Achelous .
[5]
Sterope , an
Arcadian princess as the daughter of
Cepheus , king of
Tegea .
[6]
Sterope, a princess of
Iolcus as the daughter of King
Acastus by either
Astydameia or
Hippolyte .
[7]
Sterope, daughter of
Helios and wife of King
Eurypylus of
Cyrene by whom she became the mother of
Lycaon and
Leucippus .
[8]
Sterope, one of the
Maenads . She followed
Dionysus during the god's Indian campaign but was slain by
Morrheus .
[9]
Sterope, one of the horses of
Helios .
[10]
Sterope is also the name of one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster.
Notes
^
Liddell, Henry George ;
Scott, Robert .
"sterope" .
A Greek-English Lexicon . Perseus Project, Tufts University. Retrieved December 13, 2012 .
^
Apollodorus ,
3.10.1
^ Apollodorus,
1.7.7
^
Hesiod ,
Ehoiai
fr .
26. 7
Merkelbach & West (1967) .
^ Apollodorus,
1.7.10
^ Apollodorus,
2.7.3
^ Apollodorus,
3.13.3
^
Scholia on
Pindar , Pythian Odes 4.57;
Tzetzes on
Lycophron , Alexandra 886
^
Nonnus , 29.237
^
Hyginus , Fabulae 183
References
Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Gaius Julius Hyginus , Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Hesiod ,
Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.
Online version at theio.com
Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (1967), Fragmenta Hesiodea , Oxford,
ISBN
0-19-814171-8 {{
citation }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link ) .
Nonnus of Panopolis ,
Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .