Marpessa
Family: heroes · Role: mother of Cleopatra · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7
🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Marpessa)
Life events
- Marpessa chose Idas as her husband after Zeus allowed her to decide between Idas and Apollo.(Apollodorus, Library 1.7 · 📍 Messene)
Apollodorus, Library 1.7
- parent: Evenus “Evenus begat Marpessa, who was wooed by Apollo”
- admirer: Apollo “Marpessa, who was wooed by Apollo, but Idas, son of Aphareus, carried her off”
- admirer: Idas “but Idas, son of Aphareus, carried her off in a winged chariot”
- married with Idas “she ... chose Idas for her husband.”
- courtship with Apollo “As they fought for the girl's hand, Zeus parted them and allowed the maiden herself to choose which of the two she would marry”
- courtship with Idas “she, because she feared that Apollo might desert her in her old age, chose Idas for her husband.”
Apollodorus, Library 1.8
- child: Cleopatra “Cleopatra, daughter of Idas and Marpessa”
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