Sterope
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Sterope (Greek: Στερόπη from στεροπή steropê lightning) 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)
- a name of 22 Tauri in the Pleiades cluster of stars
- Sterope, daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe
- Sterope, daughter of Porthaon and Euryte or Laothoe, sometimes said to be the mother of the Sirens by Achelous
- Sterope, daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea, who received a lock of Medusa's hair from Heracles to protect her hometown, Tegea from attack, thus winning Heracles' friendship for her father
- Sterope, daughter of Acastus and either Astydameia or Hippolyte
- Sterope, one of the horses of Helios
- Sterope, one of the Maenads
- Steropes, one of the Cyclopes
[edit] References
- Sterope in Greek Myth Index
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