Asterope

Asterope

1. A Pleiad, a lover of Mars (Fasti By Ovid).

Pleiads, Pleiades, The Seven Sisters, the daughters, with the Hyades and the Hesperides, of Atlas the Titan. Their mother was Pleione the naiad. They were chased by Orion rousing the anger of Artemis to whom they were dedicated and changed to stars by the gods. The Pleiades are stars in the constellation Taurus. Their names were Maia, the mother of Mercury by Jupiter, Taÿgeta, Electra, Merope, Asterope/Sterope, Alcyone (the brightest star of the cluster), and Celaeno.

2. An Oceanid, the daughter of Cebren who married Aesacus, and when she died he mourned for her and was turned into a bird. (Apollodorus Library Book 3.)

Stephanus of Byzantium calls Acragas, to whom the foundation of the town of Acragas (Agrigentum) in Sicily was ascribed, a son of Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope.

From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

From Fasti By Ovid

Book IV: April 2
When the night is past, and the sky is just beginning
To redden, and the birds, wet with dew, are singing,
And the traveller who's been awake all night, puts down
His half-burnt torch, and the farmer's off to his usual labours,
The Pleiades will start to lighten their father's shoulders,
They who are said to be seven, but usually are six:
Because it's true that six lay in the loving clasp of gods
(Since they say that Asterope slept with Mars:
Alcyone, and you, lovely Celaeno, with Neptune:
Maia, Electra, and Taygete with Jupiter),
While the seventh, Merope, married you, Sisyphus, a mortal,
And repents of it, and, alone of the sisters, hides from shame:
Or because Electra couldn't bear to watch Troy's destruction,
And so her face now is covered by her hands.

From The Divination by Birds by Hesiod

The Astronomy

Fragment #1 --

Athenaeus xi, p. 491 d:
And the author of "The Astronomy", which is attributed forsooth to Hesiod, always calls them (the Pleiades) Peleiades: `but mortals call them Peleiades'; and again, `the stormy Peleiades go down'; and again, `then the Peleiades hide away....'

Scholiast on Pindar, Nem. ii. 16:
The Pleiades.... whose stars are these: -- `Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot....'
((LACUNA))
`In the mountains of Cyllene she (Maia) bare Hermes, the herald of the gods.'

From Apollodorus Library Book 3. Continued

But after that Ilium was captured by Hercules, as we have related a little before, Podarces, who was called Priam, came to the throne, and he married first Arisbe, daughter of Merops, by whom he had a son Aesacus, who married Asterope, daughter of Cebren, and when she died he mourned for her and was turned into a bird.