Meropè

Family: Greeks · Role: queen · First appears: Sophocles, King Oedipus — Scene 4

Sophocles, King Oedipus — Scene 4

• child: Oedipus “My father was Corinthian Polybus, My mother, Dorian Meropè.”

Sophocles, King Oedipus — Scene 5

• with Oedipus (Meropè is presented as Oedipus's presumed mother, though the chapter establishes that Polybus did not beget him.) “OED. Must I not fear my mother's marriage-bed? JO. Why should man fear, seeing his course is ruled By fortune, and he nothing can foreknow? 'Tis best to live at ease as best one may. Then fear not thou thy mother's nuptial hour. Many a man ere now in dreams hath lain With her who bare him. He hath least annoy Who with such omens troubleth not his mind. OED. That word would be well spoken, were not she Alive that gave me birth. But since she lives, Though you speak well, yet have I cause for fear. JO. Your father's burial might enlighten you. OED. It doth. But I am darkened by a life. COR. SH. Whose being overshadows thee with fear? OED. Queen Meropè, the consort of your king.”
• child: Oedipus “COR. SH. Whose being overshadows thee with fear? OED. Queen Meropè, the consort of your king. COR. SH. What in her life should make your heart afraid? OED. A heaven-sent oracle of dreadful sound. COR. SH. May it be told, or must no stranger know? OED. Indeed it may. Word came from Phoebus once That I must know my mother's shame, and shed With these my hands my own true father's blood.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.