One of the seven Pleiades sisters from Greek mythology
Alcyone Other names Asterope Abode Mt. Cyllene on Arcadia , later
Pisa in ElisParents Atlas and Pleione or Aethra Siblings
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 Consort (i) Ares (ii) Oenomaus Children (i) Oenomaus and Evenus (ii) Hippodamia
Statues of Sterope and Oenomaus, from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia In Greek mythology , Sterope (; Ancient Greek : Στερόπη, [sterópɛː] , from στεροπή , steropē , lightning),[ 1] also called Asterope (Ἀστερόπη), was one of the seven Pleiades .[ 2]
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 Ares [ 3] or Hyperochus .[ 3] Sterope was also credited to be the mother of Evenus (father of Marpessa ) by the said Olympian god.[ 4]
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