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 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][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]
Notes
- Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "sterope". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Project, Tufts University. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.1
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.7
- Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 26. 7 Merkelbach & West (1967).
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.10
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.3
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.13.3
- Tzetzes on Lycophron, 886
- Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.57
- Nonnus, Dionysiaca 29.237
- Hyginus, Fabulae 183
References
- 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.
- 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.
- Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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