Sterope

  1.Sterope:- In Greek mythology, Sterope was described as the daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Pleiades and a companion of Artemis. 

Sterope

                         According to some version. Sterope was described as wife or lover of  Ares, and mother of Oenomaus.  In some versions Sterope was described as the wife of Oenomaus.  

2.Sterope:- In Greek mythology, Sterope was described as the daughter of  Cepheus, King of Tegea. 

Sterope, princess of Tegea

Sterope was given by Hercules a lock of Medusa's hair  to protect her hometown, Tegea from attack, in the absence of men.

3.Sterope:- In Greek mythology, Steropes was described as one of the Cyclopes, son of Gaea and Uranus.

4.Sterope:- daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe.
5.Sterope:- daughter of Helios (the sun god) and wife of Eurypylus.
6.Sterope:- one of the horses of Helios

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Pleione

In Greek mythology, Pleione was described as oceanid nymph of Mt Cyllene in Arcadia (Southern Greek). She was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Pleione was known as protector of sailing. 

Pleione

                                 She married the Titan Atlas and gave birth to the Pleiades, the  Hyades, and Hyas. 

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Merope

 Merope1                                   
        In Greek mythology, Merope  was one of the seven Pleiades, daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Merope married the impious (not religious) king Sisyphus and was ancestress of the Corinthian and Lycian royal families.

Merope

                                          Merope sisters had relations with gods and bore them sons, but Merope married Sisyphus and lived on the island Chios. Merope gave birth to Glaukos, Ornytion, Almus, Thersander and Sinon. According to some versions, Merope was so ashamed of her husband's crimes that she hid her face amongst the stars of heaven, and so the seventh star of the Pleiades faded away from human sight. According to other versions, Merope became invisible from shame, because she alone among her sisters had sexual intercourse with a moral man.

Merope2
               In Greek mythology, Merope was described as the daughter of Oenopion, king of Chios, (son of Dionysus and Ariadne) and nymph Helike. When hunter Orion came to Chios, he love in love with beautiful princess, Merope. Orion served King Oinopion as huntsman and wished to marry Merope, but Oenopion, disliking the idea, made Orion drunk, put out his eyes as he slept, and then cast him on the beach. 

Merope..

                                 According to other version, Orion got drunk went into the chamber of the Merope2, and had sex with her. Oenopion with assistance of Dionysus, who caused Orion to be thrown into a deep sleep by satyrs, in which Oenopion blinded him.
                                               In rare version, Merope was described as the wife of Oenopion. 

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Taygete

In Greek mythology, Taygete was described as the daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Pleiades and a companion of Artemis. Mt Taygetos in Laconia derived its name from her.

Taygete

                                           Zeus was attracted towards her beauty and take advantage when Taygete was unconscious. Taygete was so ashamed when she recovered that she hid herself under Mount Taygetos, in Laconia. In due course she gave birth to Lacedaemon, founder of Sparta. According to other versions, in order to secure Taygete against Zeus lustful advance, Artemis transformed her into a doe. When she was restored to her original form, she showed her gratitude towards Artemis by dedicating to her the Cerynitian hind with golden horns. (The golden horns that Hercules had to fetch in his 3rd labor.)  In some versions, It was described that by Tantalus she became the mother of Pelops. 

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Maia

                                    In Greek mythology, Maia was described as the daughter of Atlas and Pleione, and was the eldest of the seven Pleiades. Maia was also described as a shy goddess who dwell alone in a cave near the peaks of Mt Cyllene. 

Maia and Zeus

                                                    Zeus was attracted towards her beauty and in the night he secretly took her into his bed. Maia secretly gave to a son by Zeus, Hermes, in a cave of Cyllene. After giving birth to the baby, Maia wrapped him in blanket and went to sleep. The infant Hermes crawled away, stole some of Apollo's cattle and invented the lyre from a tortoise shell. 
                                             

Maia, infant Hermes, and Apollo

         Maia refused to believe Apollo when he claimed Hermes was the thief and Zeus then sided with Apollo. Finally Apollo exchanged the cattle for the lyre which became one of Apollo identifying attributes. Maia also raised the boy Arcas in her cave whose mother Callisto had been transformed into a bear.  

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