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Template:Short description Sterope (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en".; Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, Script error: No such module "IPA"., from Script error: No such module "Lang"., 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, mother of Aspledon by Presbon.[7] Their son was the eponymous founder of Aspledon, a Minyan city in Boeotia .
- Sterope, a princess of Iolcus as the daughter of King Acastus by either Astydamia or Hippolyte.[8]
- Sterope, daughter of Helios and wife of King Eurypylus of Cyrene by whom she became the mother of Lycaon and Leucippus.[9]
- Sterope, one of the Maenads. She followed Dionysus during the god's Indian campaign but was slain by Morrheus.[10]
- Sterope, one of the horses of Helios.[11]
Sterope is also the name of one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster.
Notes
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- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.10.1
- ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.7
- ↑ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 26. 7 Script error: No such module "Footnotes"..
- ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.10
- ↑ Apollodorus, 2.7.3
- ↑ Etymologicum_Magnum 157.32 under Aspledon
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.13.3
- ↑ Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.57; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 886
- ↑ Nonnus, 29.237
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 183
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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.