Sterope (Pleiad) Explained

Type:	Greek
Alcyone
Abode:	Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia, later Pisa in Elis
Parents:	Atlas and Pleione or Aethra
Siblings:	(c) Hyas
Children:	(i) Oenomaus and Evenus (ii) Hippodamia
Deity Of:	The Elean Pleiad Nymph
Member Of:	the Pleiades
Other Names:	Asterope
Consort:	(i) Ares (ii) Oenomaus

In Greek mythology, Sterope (; Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, in Greek, Modern (1453-); pronounced as /sterópɛː/, from Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: 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] or Hyperochus. Sterope was also credited to be the mother of Evenus (father of Marpessa) by the said Olympian god.^[4]

Other Use

• 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

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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and References

1. Web site: sterope. Liddell, Henry George. Henry Liddell. Scott, Robert. Robert Scott (philologist). A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Project, Tufts University. December 13, 2012.
2. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
3. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
4. [Plutarch]