Sterope (daughter of Porthaon)

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Sterope ( Greek  Στερόπη ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Porthaon , the king of Pleuron and Kalydon , and Euryte . Her brothers were Oineus , Agrios , Alkathoos , Melas and Leukopeus .

Acheloos , the personification of the eponymous Acheloos river in Greece, made her the mother of the Sirens , but no individual names are known from this connection.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pausanias 4, 35, 1.
  2. Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae 175.
  3. Pausanias 6, 20, 17 and 6, 21, 10.
  4. a b Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 7, 10.