Asterope (Greek myth)
# Asterope (Greek myth)

In Greek mythology, Asterope (/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.
* Asterope, a Hesperide.
* Asterope or Sterope, one of the Pleiades.
* Asterope, mother of Circe and possibly Aeetes by Helius, according to some.
* Asterope or Sterope, daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea.
* Asterope or Hesperia, the wife or desired lover of Aesacus and daughter of Cebren.
* Asterope, the Boeotian mother of Peneleos by Hippalcimus.

## 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)
