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One of the seven Pleiades sisters from Greek mythology
Alcyone
Other names
Asterope Abode
Mt. Cyllene on
Arcadia , later
Pisa in Elis Parents
Atlas and
Pleione or
Aethra Siblings
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
In
Greek mythology , Sterope (;
Ancient Greek : Στερόπη,
[sterópɛː] , from στεροπή , steropē , lightning),
[1] also called
Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was one of the seven
Pleiades .
[2]
Biography
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
Notes
References
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 .