Asterope (Greek myth)

In Greek mythology, Asterope (/æˈstɛrəpiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀστεροπή or Στεροπή, Asteropē "lightning") may refer to the following characters:

• Asterope, an Oceanid, mother of Acragas by Zeus.[1]
• Asterope, a Hesperide
• Asterope or Sterope (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades.[2]
• Asterope, mother of Circe and possibly Aeetes by Helius, according to some.[3]
• Asterope or Sterope, daughter of Cepheus, King of Tegea
• Asterope or Hesperia, the wife or desired lover of Aesacus and daughter of Cebren.[4][5]
• Asterope, mother of Peneleos by Hippalcimus.[6]

Classical Literature Sources

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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)

Notes

1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Akragantes
2. Hyginus, Fabulae 84
3. Argonautica Orphica, 1216
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.5
5. Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.771
6. Hyginus, Fabulae 97

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• The Orphic Argonautica, translated by Jason Colavito. © Copyright 2011. Online version at the Topos Text Project.