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Asterope (2)

Other names: Hesperia (2)


Biographical

According to Apollodorus, Asterope, a Naiad, died young, and her husband was turned into a bird during his grief. Ovid calls her Hesperia
, and tells us that she stirred love in Aesacus, but while he was chasing after her one day, she was bitten by a viper and died, and in his grief, he threw himself into the sea.

Daughter of Cebren, she married Aesacus.