Merope (Greek myth)

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Merope (/ˈmɛrəp/; Ancient Greek: Μερόπη "with face turned" derived from μερος meros "part" and ωψ ops "face, eye") was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology.

Notes

  1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 154
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.1
  3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 154; Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.340
  4. ^ Plutarch, Theseus 19.5
  5. Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.14; Suida, s.v. Πέρδικος ἱερόν; Scholiast on Plato, Republic
    7.529d
  6. ^ Apollodorus, 3.15.9; Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, Ion 121a
  7. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.76.1; Plato, Ion 533a; Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 472
  8. ^ Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468 & 472
  9. ^ Scholia on Plato, The Republic p. 529
  10. ^ Pausanias, 9.3.2
  11. ^ Parthenius, 20
  12. ^ Hesiod, Astronomia 4
  13. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 185; Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.605
  14. ^ Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 775 & 990
  15. ^ Apollodorus, 3.5.7; Parthenius, 27
  16. ^ Apollodorus, 2.8.5; Pausanias, 4.3.6

References

  • Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com