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Definition of Sterope
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades.
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Nymph
Group relationships: Pleiades
2. Noun. One of the stars in the star cluster Pleiades.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterope
Literary usage of Sterope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"Sterope is supposed by Prof. Treu to have been holding a sacrificial bowl or
basket in her ... 58 the old arrangement of Sterope and Hippodamia is followed, ..."
2. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"For a giant was her father and a goddess was her mother, She was Merope or
Sterope—the one or else the other; And the man was not the equal, ..."
3. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1873)
"Pallas standing, left, and dropping the hair of Medusa into a vase held up to
her hy a small female figure (Sterope, the priestess of Athena Alea). ..."
4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William George Smith (1849)
"... and Sterope, are likewise called bis brothers and sister ... Sterope (Schol.
ad Hum. ¡I. xviii. 486 ; Hygin. Fab. ..."
5. The Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Numismatic Society by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1873)
"Pallas standing, left, and dropping the hair of Medusa into a vase held up to
her by a small female figure (Sterope, the priestess of Athena Alea). ..."