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Merope (/ˈmɛrəp/; Ancient Greek: Μερόπη "with face turned" derived from μερος meros "part" and ωψ ops "face, eye") was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology.

  • Merope, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. She married Clymenus, son of Helius, and had children with him: 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.[3]
  • Merope, an Athenian princess as the daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and possibly Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogenia. She may have been the mother of Daedalus.[4] The latter was attributed to various parentage: (1) Eupalamus[5] and Alcippe,[6] (2) Metion[7] and Iphinoe,[8] (3) Phrasmede[9] or (4) Palamaon.[10]
  • Merope, also called Aero,[11] was the consort or daughter of Oenopion.[12]
  • Merope, a queen of Onchestus as the wife of King Megareus and mother of Hippomenes.[13]
  • Merope, a Dorian who became the foster mother of Oedipus;[14] otherwise the wife of Polybus was also called Periboea.[15]
  • Merope, queen of Messenia, wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus.[16]

Notes

  1. Hyginus, Fabulae 154
  2. Apollodorus, 3.10.1
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae 154; Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.340
  4. Plutarch, Theseus 19.5
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae 39, 244 & 274; Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.14; Suida, s.v. Πέρδικος ἱερόν; Scholiast on Plato, Republic 7.529d
  6. Apollodorus, 3.15.9; Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, Ion 121a
  7. Diodorus Siculus, 4.76.1; Plato, Ion 533a; Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 472
  8. Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468 & 472
  9. Scholia on Plato, The Republic p. 529
  10. Pausanias, 9.3.2
  11. Parthenius, 20
  12. Hesiod, Astronomia 4
  13. Hyginus, Fabulae 185; Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.605
  14. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 775 & 990
  15. Apollodorus, 3.5.7; Parthenius, 27
  16. Apollodorus, 2.8.5; Pausanias, 4.3.6

References

  • Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com