Sterope Explained

Sterope (; Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, in Greek, Modern (1453-); pronounced as /sterópɛː/, from Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: 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.

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
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• 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.

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. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
3. Apollodorus, 1.7.7
4. [Hesiod]
5. Apollodorus, 1.7.10
6. Apollodorus, 2.7.3
7. Apollodorus, 3.13.3
8. [Scholia]
9. [Nonnus]
10. [Hyginus]