Asterope_(Greek_myth)
In Greek mythology, Asterope[1] (/æˈstɛrəpiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστεροπή or Στεροπή, Asteropē "lightning") may refer to the following characters:
- Asterope, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. She was the mother of Acragas by Zeus.[2]
- Asterope, a Hesperide.[3]
- Asterope or Sterope, one of the Pleiades.[4]
- Asterope, mother of Circe and possibly Aeetes by Helius, according to some.[5]
- Asterope or Sterope, daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea.
- Asterope or Hesperia, the wife or desired lover of Aesacus and daughter of Cebren.[6]
- Asterope, the Boeotian mother of Peneleos by Hippalcimus.[7][8]