Sterope

Sterope /ˈstɛrəpiː/ (Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, 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)
  • a name of 22 Tauri in the Pleiades cluster of stars
• Sterope, daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe
• Sterope, daughter of Porthaon and Euryte or Laothoe, sometimes said to be the mother of the Sirens by Achelous
• Sterope, daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea, who received a lock of Medusa's hair from Heracles to protect her hometown, Tegea from attack, thus winning Heracles' friendship for her father
• Sterope, daughter of Acastus and either Astydameia or Hippolyte
• Sterope, one of the horses of Helios
• Sterope, a daughter of Helios and wife of Eurypylus
• Sterope, one of the Maenads
• Steropes, son of Gaia and Uranus, and brother to Brontes and Arges, the three Cyclopes written about by Hesiod.

References

1. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "sterope". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Project, Tufts University. Retrieved December 13, 2012.

External links

• Sterope in Greek Myth Index