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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.[6]
- Asterope or Hesperia, the wife or desired lover of Aesacus and daughter of the river-god Cebren.[7]
- Asterope, the Boeotian mother of Peneleos by Hippalcimus.[8][9]
- ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. pp. 76–77. ISBN 9780874365818.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Akragantes
- ^ Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1905). History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch. Vol. 2. pp. 92.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 84
- ^ Argonautica Orphica 1216
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.13.3
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.771; Apollodorus, 3.12.5
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 41, Prologue 531. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.