Sterope (Pleiad)
{{Short description|One of the seven Pleiades sisters from Greek mythology}}
{{Other uses|Sterope}}
{{Infobox deity
| type = Greek
| name = Alcyone
| abode = Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia, later
Pisa in Elis
| parents = Atlas and Pleione or Aethra
| siblings = {{Collapsible list
| title =(a) Pleiades
| bullets = on
| Maia
| Electra
| Taygete
| Celaeno
| Alcyone
| Merope
}}
{{Collapsible list
| title = (b) Hyades
| bullets = on
| 1 include Dione or
| 2 includes Thyone and Prodice or
| 3 includes (i) Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis) and Philia or
(ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Eudora and Ambrosia or
| 5 includes (i) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Cleeia (or Cleis), Phaeo and Eudora or
(ii) Aesyle (or Phaisyle), Coronis, Eudora, Ambrosia and Polyxo or
(iii) Pytho, Synecho, Baccho, Cardie and Niseis
}}
(c) Hyas
| children = (i) Oenomaus and Evenus
(ii) Hippodamia
| mount =
| deity_of = The Elean Pleiad Nymph
| member_of = the Pleiades
| other_names = Asterope
| consort = (i) Ares
(ii) Oenomaus
| image = The Pleiades (Elihu Vedder).jpg
| caption = The Pleiades by Elihu Vedder
}}File:Asteròpe i Enomau, frontó oriental del templde de Zeus, Museu arqueològic d'Olímpia.JPG]]
In Greek mythology, Sterope ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ɛr|ə|p|iː}}; Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, {{IPA|el|sterópɛː|}}, from {{lang|grc|στεροπή}}, steropē, lightning),{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2396614|title=sterope|author=Liddell, Henry George|author-link=Henry Liddell|author2=Scott, Robert|author-link2=Robert Scott (philologist)|work=A Greek-English Lexicon|publisher=Perseus Project, Tufts University|access-date=December 13, 2012}} also called Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was one of the seven Pleiades.Pausanias, 5.10.5
Biography
Asterope was the daughter of Atlas and Pleione, born to them at Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. She was the wife of King Oenomaus of Pisa, or according to some accounts, his mother by AresApollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Apollod.+3.10.1 3.10.1] or Hyperochus. Sterope was also credited to be the mother of Evenus (father of Marpessa) by Ares.Plutarch, Parallela minora [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg085.perseus-eng1:40 40].{{Greek myth (nymph)}}
Other Use
- USS Sterope (AK-96) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the star.
- Asterope is a name of the double star 21 Tauri and 22 Tauri in the Pleiades cluster of stars.
- 233 Asterope is a T-type main belt asteroid
Notes
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References
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0219 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0217 Greek text available from the same website].
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.1.1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
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Category:Pleiades (Greek mythology)
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