Sterope (Pleiad)
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One of the seven Pleiades sisters from Greek mythology
For other uses, see
AsteropeAbode Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia, later
Pisa in Elis Personal information Parents Atlas and Pleione or Aethra Siblings
(c) Hyas Consort (i) Ares
(ii) Oenomaus Children (i) Oenomaus and Evenus
(ii) Hippodamia
Pisa in Elis
(b) Hyades
(ii) Oenomaus
(ii) Hippodamia
In
Pleiades.[2]
Biography
Asterope was the daughter of
Arcadia. She was the wife of King Oenomaus of Pisa, or according to some accounts, his mother by Ares.[3] Sterope was also credited to be the mother of Evenus (father of Marpessa) by the said Olympian god.[4]
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Other Use
- USS Sterope (AK-96) was a the star.
- in the Pleiades cluster of stars.
- 233 Asterope is a T-type main belt asteroid
Notes
References
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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