Sterope

This article is about the Pleiad. For the cyclops, see Steropes.

Sterope
Reconstructed cast statue of Sterope, of the East pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
General Information
Species	Goddess
Gender identity	Female
Aliases	Asterope
Relationships
Parents	Atlas and Pleione
Siblings	The Pleiades (Maia, Alcyone, Celaeno, Taygete, Merope and Electra), Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades and the Hesperides (Aegle, Erytheia and Hesperathusa)
Consorts	Ares
Spouses	Oenomaus
Children	By Oenomaus Hippodamia Leucippus By Ares Evenus
Languages
Hellēnikḗ(Ancient Greek)	Στερόπη

Sterope (Ancient Greek: Στερόπη) was the name of one of the Pleiades, seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. She is the wife of Oenomaus and by him had a daughter Hippodamia, making her ancestress of the Atreids through the marriage of their daughter Hippodamia to Pelops.

Sterope was one of seven Pleaides; the others were her sisters Maia, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Merope and Electra. The seven sisters were transformed into stars by Zeus, to save them from the advances of Orion. In some legends, Electra faded away, distressed by the sack of Troy, but in others it is Merope, ashamed of her relationship with Sisyphus.

Etymology

The name Sterope comes from στεροπή, steropē, which means lightning

Family

Sterope married King Oeneomaus and by him she gave birth to Hippodamia the wife of Pelops and Leucippus a lover of Daphne but was killed by Apollo since he also was a lover of Daphne. She is also possibly the mother of Alcippe.

She also consorted with Ares and by him she gave birth to Evenus, and according to the Roman poet Hyginus, Oenomaus also.

Atreid Genealogy in Greek mythology

Plouto   Zeús                 Hḗrā                                                                       Tantalus   Eurythemista   Árēs   Harpina                                                                                         Oenomaus of Pisa   Sterope                                                                       Oeme     Broteas         Niobe   Amphion                       Perseus of Mycenae   Andromeda                               Pelops               Hippodamia                                                                                                               Tantalus                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Atreus   Aerope       Thyestes       Nicippe   Sthenelus   Electyron   Eurydice   Astydamia   Alcaeus   Pittheus   Henioche   Alcathous   Pyrgo                                                                                                                                                                                                 Pelopia                   Eurystheus   Zeús   Alcmene           Amphitryon           Aethra   Aegeus of Athens   Periboea   Telamon of Aegina                                                                                                                                                                                               Helen   Menelaus       Agamemnon   Clytaemnestra   Aegisthus                 Hḗrācles       Iphicles                       Theseus           Ajax                                                                                             Hermione       Orestes     Iphigenia       Electra   Pylades                                                                         Tisamenus                                                                                                   Strophius           Medon