Aerope

Role: daughter of Catreus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.2

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Aerope)

Aerope was the daughter of Catreus and the sister of Clymene, Apemosyne, and Althaemenes. Catreus gave her and Clymene to Nauplius to be sold in foreign lands. She later became the wife of Plisthenes, who fathered Agamemnon and Menelaus.

She was also the wife of Atreus, and the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus, who are named as sons of Atreus and Aerope. Aerope loved Thyestes, and the account says that he had debauched her; she gave “it” to him.

Relationship record

Life events

• Catreus gave Aerope and Clymene to Nauplius for sale in foreign lands.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Catreus Clymene Nauplius
  • “And Catreus gave Aerope and Clymene to Nauplius to sell into foreign lands;”
• Aerope married Plisthenes, who fathered Agamemnon and Menelaus.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Plisthenes Agamemnon Menelaus
  • “Aerope became the wife of Plisthenes, who begat Agamemnon and Menelaus;”

Apollodorus, Library 3.2

• parent: Catreus “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Clymene “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Apemosyne “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• siblings with Althaemenes “But Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes.”
• married with Plisthenes “And of these two Aerope became the wife of Plisthenes, who begat Agamemnon and Menelaus;”

Apollodorus, Epitome 2

• married with Atreus (Aerope was Atreus's wife.) “Now the wife of Atreus was Aerope, daughter of Catreus”
• admired: Thyestes (Aerope loved Thyestes.) “and she loved Thyestes”
• with Thyestes (The text describes a sexual relationship between Thyestes and Aerope.) “Aerope gave it to Thyestes, by whom she had been debauched”
• courtship with Thyestes “and she loved Thyestes.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

• child: Agamemnon “Of the Mycenaeans, Agamemnon, son of Atreus and Aerope: a hundred ships.”
• child: Menelaus “Of the Lacedaemonians, Menelaus, son of Atreus and Aerope: sixty ships.”
• parent: Agamemnon “Agamemnon, son of Atreus and Aerope”
• parent: Menelaus “Menelaus, son of Atreus and Aerope”

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