About: 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.