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 the river-god Cebren.
• Asterope, the Boeotian mother of Peneleos by Hippalcimus.