Merope

Role: wife of Cresphontes · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.4

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.”

courtship with Orion “Afterwards he went to Chios and wooed Merope, daughter of Oenopion”
parent: Oenopion “Merope, daughter of Oenopion”

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.”

parent: Atlas “Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia , to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.”
parent: Pleione “Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia , to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.”

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