In Greek mythology , Asterope[ 1] (; 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 ^ Apollodorus , 3.13.3^ Ovid , Metamorphoses ^ 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