Sterope (; Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, , from στεροπή, steropē, lightning)
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Sterope (or Asterope), one of the Pleiades and the wife of Oenomaus (or his mother by Ares).
[Apollodorus, 3.10.1]
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Sterope, a Pleuronian princess as the daughter of King Pleuron and Xanthippe. She was the sister of Agenor, Stratonice and Laophonte.
[Apollodorus, 1.7.7]
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Sterope, a princess as the daughter of King Porthaon and Euryte or Laothoe.
[Hesiod, Ehoiai . 26. 7 .] She was the sister of Oeneus, Agrius, Melas, Leucopeus, Stratonice and Eurythemista. Sterope was sometimes said to be the mother of the Sirens by Achelous.[Apollodorus, 1.7.10]
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Sterope, an Arcadian princess as the daughter of Cepheus, king of Tegea.
[Apollodorus, 2.7.3]
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Sterope, a princess of Iolcus as the daughter of King Acastus by either Astydamia or Hippolyte.
[Apollodorus, 3.13.3]
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Sterope, daughter of Helios and wife of King Eurypylus of Cyrene by whom she became the mother of Lycaon and Leucippus.
[Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.57; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 886]
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Sterope, one of the Maenads. She followed Dionysus during the god's Indian campaign but was slain by Morrheus.
[Nonnus, 29.237]
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Sterope, one of the horses of Helios.
[Hyginus, Fabulae 183]
Sterope is also the name of one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster.
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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.
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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.
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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, 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.
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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.
