Asterope
One of the seven Pleiades, whose name means "star-face" or "lightning," and whose star was among the dimmest in the cluster.
The Myth of Asterope
Asterope (also called Sterope) was one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione who formed the Pleiades. Her name derives from aster (star) and ops (face or eye), making her literally "star-faced" — though another etymology connects her to asterope meaning "lightning flash." She was said to have been the mother of Oenomaus, the king of Pisa in Elis who challenged all suitors of his daughter Hippodamia to a deadly chariot race, killing those who lost until Pelops finally defeated him through a combination of divine favour and sabotage. Through Oenomaus and Hippodamia, Asterope was thus an ancestress of the cursed House of Atreus — Agamemnon, Menelaus, Orestes, and the bloodline that dominated the mythology of the Trojan War and its aftermath. Like her sister Taygete, Asterope's star in the Pleiades was considered dim, and some ancient astronomers noted that only six of the seven sisters were easily visible, with the seventh "lost" or hiding.
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