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'''Merope''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɛr|ə|p|iː}}; [[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 [[List of Oceanids|Oceanids]], [[Naiad|water-nymph]] daughters of the [[Titan (mythology)|Titans]] [[Oceanus]] and his sister-wife [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]]. She married [[Clymenus]], son of [[Helios|Helius]], and had children with him: [[Phaethon]] and the girls called [[Heliades]].<ref name=":0">[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#154 154]</ref>
* [[Merope (Pleiad)|Merope]], one of the [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Pleiades]], daughter of [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]] and [[Pleione (mythology)|Pleione]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.10.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Merope 3.10.1]</ref>
* Merope, one of the Heliades, daughter of either Helios and [[Clymene (mythology)|Clymene]] or of Clymenus (Helios' son) and Merope, one of the Oceanids.<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#154 154]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 2.340</ref>
* Merope, an [[Athens|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]].<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''Theseus'' 19.5</ref> The latter was attributed to various parentage: (1) [[Eupalamus]]<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#39 39], [https://topostext.org/work/206#244 244] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#274 274]; [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]], Commentary on [[Virgil|Virgil's]] ''[[Aeneid]]'' 6.14; [[Suda|Suida]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/240#pi.1042 Πέρδικος ἱερόν];'' [[Scholia]]st ad [[Plato]], ''[[Republic (Plato)|Republic]]'' 7.529d</ref> and [[Alcippe (Greek mythology)|Alcippe]],<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.15.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Alcippe 3.15.8]; [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]], ''Chiliades'' 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, ''Ion'' 121a</ref> (2) [[Metion]]<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#76.1 4.76.1]; Plato, ''[[Ion (dialogue)|Ion]]'' 533a; Scholia ad [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]'' 472</ref> and [[Iphinoe (mythology)|Iphinoe]],<ref>Scholia ad Sophocles, ''Oedipus at Colonus'' 468 & 472</ref> (3) [[Phrasmede]]<ref>Scholia ad Plato, ''The Republic'' p. 529</ref> or (4) [[Palamaon]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.3.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Palamaon 9.3.2]</ref>
* [[Merope (daughter of Oenopion)|Merope]], also called [[Aero (mythology)|Aero]],<ref>[[Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]], [https://topostext.org/work/550#20 20]</ref> was the consort or daughter of [[Oenopion]].<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Astronomia (poem)|Astronomia]]'' 4</ref>
* Merope, a queen of [[Onchestos|Onchestus]] as the wife of King [[Megareus of Onchestus|Megareus]] and mother of [[Hippomenes]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#185 185]; Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 10.605</ref>
* [[Merope (Oedipus)|Merope]], a [[Dorians|Dorian]] who became the foster mother of [[Oedipus]];<ref>Sophocles, ''[[Oedipus Rex|Oedipus Tyrannus]]'' 775 & 990</ref> otherwise the wife of [[Polybus of Corinth|Polybus]] was also called [[Periboea]].<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.5.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Periboea 3.5.7]</ref>
* [[Merope (Messenia)|Merope]], queen of [[Messenia (ancient region)|Messenia]], wife of [[Cresphontes]] and mother of [[Aepytus of Messenia|Aepytus]].<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.8.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Merope 2.8.5]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+4.3.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Merope 4.3.6]</ref>
* 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.<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] on Homer's ''Odyssey'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=APjOSWm97VUC&pg=PA517&lpg=PA517 19.517]</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''The Library of History'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
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