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Sterope /ˈstɛrəp/ (Ancient Greek: Στερόπη, from στεροπή, steropē, 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, a daughter of Helios and wife of Eurypylus
  • Sterope, one of the Maenads
  • Steropes, son of Gaia and Uranus, and brother to Brontes and Arges, the three Cyclopes written about by Hesiod.
  • References

    Sterope Wikipedia