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.^[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]

Classical literature sources

Chronological listing of classical literature sources for Asterope:

• Hesiod, The Astronomy (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek poetry C8th or C7th BC)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 3. 10. 1 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
• Scholiast on Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 3. 10. 1 (Apollodorus, The Library trans. Frazer 1921 Vol 2 p. 4)
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library 3. 12. 5 (trans. Frazer) (Greek mythography C2nd AD)
• Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 84 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythography C2nd AD)
• Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 97
• Stephanus Byzantium, s.v. Akragantes (ed. Meinekii) (Byzantinian mythography C6AD)
• Scholiast on Stephanus Byzantium, s.v. Akragantes (A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ed. Smith 1870 Vol 1 p. 11)