Asterope (daughter of Atlas)

Asterope ( Greek  Ἀστερόπη ) or Sterope ( Στερόπη ) is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology .

She is a nymph and daughter of Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione . Through Ares she became the mother of Oinomaos , king of Pisa in Elis . In other stories, she was the wife of Oinomaos or, together with her sisters, was persecuted by Orion for a long time and finally saved by Zeus by turning them all into doves and placing them in the sky as seven stars.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Asterope 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 658 ( digitized version ).
• Gustav Türk : Sterope 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, column 1500 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Sterope in the Theoi Project (English)