Merope (Greek myth)
Merope (/ˈmɛrəpiː/; Ancient Greek: Μερόπη "with face turned" derived from μερος meros "part" and ωψ ops "face, eye"; alternatively "bee-eater bird" from merops) was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology.
- Merope, one of the Oceanids, the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Merope married Clymenus, son of Helius, and had children: Phaethon and the girls called Heliades.[1]
- Merope, one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and Pleione.[2]
- Merope, one of the Heliades, daughter of either Helios and Clymene or of Clymenus (Helios' son) and Merope, one of the Oceanids.[1][3]
- Merope, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus. She may have been the mother of Daedalus.[4]
- Merope, also called Aero, was the consort or daughter of Oenopion.[5]
- Merope, wife of Megareus and mother of Hippomenes.[6]
- Merope, a Dorian who became the foster mother of Oedipus.[7]; otherwise the wife of Polybus was also called Periboea.
- Merope, queen of Messenia, wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus.[8]
References
- ^ a b Hyginus. Fabulae, 154.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 3.10.1; Hyginus. Astronomica, 2.21; Ovid. Fasti, 4.175; Pausanias. Description of Greece, 9.34.7-10
- ^ Ovid. Metamorphoses, Book 2.340
- ^ Plutarch. Life of Theseus, 19.5
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 1.4.3; Hesiod. Astronomia, 4
- ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, 185
- ^ Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus, 775 & 990
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.8.5; Pausanias. Description of Greece, 4.3.6
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