Sterope

Sterope (/ˈstɛrəpiː/; 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 Astydamia 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

1. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "sterope". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Project, Tufts University. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
2. Apollodorus, 3.10.1
3. Apollodorus, 1.7.7
4. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 26. 7 Merkelbach & West (1967).
5. Apollodorus, 1.7.10
6. Apollodorus, 2.7.3
7. Apollodorus, 3.13.3
8. Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.57; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 886
9. Nonnus, 29.237
10. 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.
• 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.