Sterope (Pleiad)

One of the seven Pleiades sisters from Greek mythology

For other uses, see Sterope.

Alcyone

The Elean Pleiad Nymph

Member of the Pleiades

The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder

Other names| Asterope
Abode| Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia, later
Pisa in Elis
Genealogy
Parents| Atlas and Pleione or Aethra
Siblings|

(a) Pleiades

* Maia
* Electra
* Taygete
* Celaeno
* Alcyone
* Merope

(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

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]

## Biography

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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] or Hyperochus.[3] Sterope was also credited to be the mother of Evenus (father of Marpessa) by Ares.[4]

Greek deities
series

* Primordial deities
* Titans and Olympians
* Water deities
* Chthonic deities
* Personified concepts

Nymphs

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* Aurae
* Daphnaie
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* Epimelides
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* Krenaiai
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* Meliae
* Naiads
* Nereids
* Oceanids
* Oreads
* Pegasides
* Pleiades
* Thriae

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## Other Use

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* USS Sterope (AK-96) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the star.
* Asterope is a name of the double star 21 Tauri and 22 Tauri in the Pleiades cluster of stars.
* 233 Asterope is a T-type main belt asteroid

## Notes

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* Ancient Greece portal
* Myths portal

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. ^ a b Apollodorus, 3.10.1
4. ^ Plutarch, Parallela minora 40.

## References

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* 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.

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