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{{Short description|Name of multiple Greek mythological figures}}
'''Sterope''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ɛr|ə|p|iː}}; [[Ancient Greek]]: Στερόπη, {{IPA|el|sterópɛː|}}, from {{lang|grc|στεροπή}}, ''steropē'', lightning)<ref>{{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|authorlink=Henry Liddell|author2=Scott, Robert|authorlink2=Robert Scott (philologist)|work=[[A Greek-English Lexicon]]|publisher=Perseus Project, Tufts University|accessdate=December 13, 2012}}</ref> was the name of several individuals in [[Greek mythology]]:

* [[Sterope (Pleiad)|Sterope]] (or Asterope), one of the [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Pleiades]] and the wife of [[Oenomaus]] (or his mother by [[Ares]]).<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Apollod.+3.10.1 3.10.1]</ref>
* Sterope, a [[Pleuron (Aetolia)|Pleuronian]] princess as the daughter of King [[Pleuron (Greek mythology)|Pleuron]] and [[Xanthippe (mythology)|Xanthippe]]. She was the sister of [[Agenor, son of Pleuron|Agenor]], [[Stratonice (mythology)|Stratonice]] and [[Laophonte (mythology)|Laophonte]].<ref name=":0">Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Sterope 1.7.7]</ref>
* Sterope, a [[Calydon]]ian princess as the daughter of King [[Porthaon]] and [[Euryte (daughter of Hippodamas)|Euryte]] or [[Laothoe]].<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women|Ehoiai]]'' {{abbr|fr|fragment}}. [https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/Chronologia/S_ante08/Hesiodos/hes_ka03.html#026 26. 7] {{harvtxt|Merkelbach|West|1967}}.</ref> She was the sister of [[Oeneus]], [[Agrius of Calydon|Agrius]], [[Melas (mythology)|Melas]], [[Leucopeus]], [[Stratonice (mythology)|Stratonice]] and [[Eurythemista|Eurythemiste]]. Sterope was sometimes said to be the mother of the [[Siren (mythology)|Siren]]s by [[Achelous]].<ref name=":1">Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Sterope 1.7.10]</ref>
*[[Sterope of Tegea|Sterope]], an [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]n princess as the daughter of [[Cepheus (king of Tegea)|Cepheus]], king of [[Tegea]].<ref>Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Sterope 2.7.3]</ref>
*Sterope, mother of [[Aspledon (mythology)|Aspledon]] by [[Presbon]].<ref>''[[Etymologicum_Magnum]]'' [[iarchive:etymologikontome00etymuoft/page/n90/mode/1up|157.32 under ''Aspledon'']]</ref> Their son was the eponymous founder of [[Aspledon]], a [[Minyans|Minyan]] city in [[Boeotia]] .
* Sterope, a princess of [[Iolcus]] as the daughter of King [[Acastus]] by either [[Astydamia (wife of Acastus)|Astydamia]] or [[Hippolyte]].<ref>Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.3.13.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Sterope 3.13.3]</ref>
* Sterope, daughter of [[Helios]] and wife of King [[Eurypylus]] of [[Cyrene, Libya|Cyrene]] by whom she became the mother of [[Lycaon (Greek myth)|Lycaon]] and [[Leucippus (mythology)|Leucippus]].<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes'' 4.57; [[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], ''Alexandra'' 886</ref>
* Sterope, one of the [[Maenads]]. She followed [[Dionysus]] during the god's Indian campaign but was slain by [[Morrheus]].<ref>[[Nonnus]], 29.237</ref>
* Sterope, one of the horses of [[Helios]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 183</ref>

[[Sterope (star)|Sterope]] is also the name of one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster.

==Notes==
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==References==
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'' from ''Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica'' translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. [https://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html Online version at theio.com]
* {{Citation |last1=Merkelbach |first1=R. |last2=West |first2=M.L. |title=Fragmenta Hesiodea |place=Oxford |year=1967 |ISBN=0-19-814171-8}}.
*[[Nonnus|Nonnus of Panopolis]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. [https://topostext.org/work/529 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Nonnus of Panopolis, ''Dionysiaca. 3 Vols.'' W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0485 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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