Aerope

Role: daughter of Cepheus · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 44

At Cresium, Aerope, daughter of Cepheus, had an intrigue with Ares and died in childbirth. Her son Aeropus continued to suckle from her after her death: “the baby still clung to his mother though she was dead, and sucked from her breasts a plentiful supply of milk”

Relationship record

Life events

• Ares had an intrigue with Aerope, who died in childbirth.(Book 8 · Chapter 44 · 📍 Cresium)
  • With: Ares
  • “Ares had an intrigue with Aerope, the daughter of Cepheus the son of Aleus, and she died in childbirth”
• Aeropus was born and continued nursing from his dead mother.(Book 8 · Chapter 44 · 📍 Cresium)
  • With: Aeropus
  • “the baby still clung to his mother though she was dead, and sucked from her breasts a plentiful supply of milk”

Book 8 · Chapter 44

• with Ares (interaction) “Ares had an intrigue with Aerope, the daughter of Cepheus the son of Aleus”
• parent: Cepheus “Ares had an intrigue with Aerope, the daughter of Cepheus the son of Aleus”
• child: Aeropus “she died in childbirth, and the baby still clung to his mother though she was dead, and sucked from her breasts a plentiful supply of milk, and as Ares had caused this they called the god Aphneus, and the boy was called they say Aeropus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.