Merope (; 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] Eupalamus [ 5] Alcippe ,[ 6] Metion [ 7] Iphinoe ,[ 8] Phrasmede [ 9] Palamaon .[ 10]
Merope , also called Aero ,[ 11] 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] Polybus was also called Periboea .[ 15] Merope , queen of Messenia , wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus .[ 16] Merope, one of the daughters of Pandareus and his wife Harmothoë , and thus sister to Aëdon . After the deaths of their parents, she and her sister Cleothera were taken care of by Aphrodite , Hera , Artemis and Athena until strong winds carried them over and took them to the Erinyes , whom they served as maids.[ 17]
^ Hyginus , Fabulae 154 ^ Apollodorus , 3.10.1 ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 154 ; Ovid , Metamorphoses
^ Plutarch , Theseus 19.5^ Hyginus, Fabulae 39 , 244 & 274 ; Servius , Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid Suida , s.v. Πέρδικος ἱερόν ;Scholiast ad Plato , Republic
^ Apollodorus, 3.15.8 ; Tzetzes , Chiliades 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, Ion 121a
^ Diodorus Siculus , 4.76.1 ; Plato, Ion Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus ^ Scholia ad Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468 & 472
^ Scholia ad Plato, The Republic p. 529
^ Pausanias , 9.3.2 ^ Parthenius , 20 ^ Hesiod , Astronomia ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 185 ; Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.605
^ Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
^ Apollodorus, 3.5.7
^ Apollodorus, 2.8.5 ; Pausanias, 4.3.6
^ Eustathius on Homer's Odyssey 19.517