Merope (wife of Cresphontes)

Also known as: Merope · Role: wife of Cresphontes · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.8

Life events

• Aepytus secretly returned, killed Polyphontes, and recovered his ancestral kingdom.(Apollodorus, Library 2.8 · 📍 Messene)
  • With: Polyphontes Aepytus
  • “When he was come to manhood he secretly returned, killed Polyphontes, and recovered the kingdom of his fathers.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.8

• married with Cresphontes “Cresphontes had not long reigned over Messene when he was murdered with two of his sons; and Polyphontes, one of the true Heraclids, came to the throne and took to wife, against her will, Merope, the wife of the murdered man.”
• married with Polyphontes “Polyphontes, one of the true Heraclids, came to the throne and took to wife, against her will, Merope, the wife of the murdered man.”
• child: Aepytus (parent->child) “For Merope had a third son, called Aepytus, whom she gave to her own father to bring up.”

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