Merops

Role: king of Ethiopia · First appears: Fable 17

Fable 17

• married with Clymene (The footnote explicitly states that Merops married Clymene.) “He was king of Ethiopia, and marrying the Nymph Clymene, was either the stepfather of Phaëton, or, as some writers say, his putative father.”
• with Phaëton (Merops is described as either Phaëton's stepfather or putative father.) “He was king of Ethiopia, and marrying the Nymph Clymene, was either the stepfather of Phaëton, or, as some writers say, his putative father.”

Fable 18

• with Phaëton (Phaëton wishes to be called Merops's son, but the passage does not establish that he is actually Merops's child.) “now desiring to be called the son of Merops.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.