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Encyclopedia Britannica



MEROPE

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 172 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MEROPE , the name of several figures in Greek mythology. The most important of them are the following: (I) The daughter of Cypselius, king of
Arcadia
 , and wife of Cresphontes, ruler of Messenia. During an insurrection Cresphontes and two of his sons were murdered and the throne seized by Polyphontes, who forced Merope to marry him. A third son, Aepytus, contrived to escape, and, subsequently returning to Messenia, put Polyphontes to death and recovered his father's kingdom (Apollodorus ii. 8, 5; Pausanias iv. 3, 6). The fortunes of Merope' have furnished the subject of tragedies by Euripides (Cresphontes, not extant), Voltaire, Maffei and
Matthew
 
Arnold
 . (2) The daughter of
Atlas
  and wife of
Sisyphus
 . She was one of the seven Pleiades,, but remained invisible, hiding her light for shame at having become the wife of a mortal (Apollodorus 9, 3; 10, r;
Ovid
 ,
Fasti
 , iv. 175).


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