Merops (mythology)
The name Merops (Ancient Greek: Μέροψ means "mankind, mortals" or "dividing the voice") refers to several figures from Greek mythology:
- Merops, king of
- Merops, a resident of Miletus, husband of another Clymene and father of Pandareus.[2][3]
- Merops, king of
- Merops, a son of Triopas,[8] or an autochthon[9] and a king of Cos (the island was thought to have been named after his daughter[10]). He was married to the nymph Ethemea (or, more correctly, Echemeia[10]), who was shot by Artemis for having ceased to worship the goddess. As Merops was about to commit suicide over his wife Echemeia's death, Hera took pity on the grieving widower and changed his shape into that of an eagle, and later placed him among the stars (the constellation Aquila).[11] Merops was the father of Eumelus and through him grandfather of Agron, Byssa and Meropis, all of whom were notorious for their impiety.[12] Clytie, the wife of Eurypylus of Cos,[13] and Titanis, who was changed by Artemis into a deer because of her beauty,[14] were given as the daughters of Merops.
- Merops, king of Anthemousia, who fought against Sithon of Thrace for the hand of the latter's daughter Pallene and was killed.[15]
- Merops, whose daughter Epione was the wife of Asclepius.[16]
- Merops, son of Hyas, who was the first to make people reassemble in settlements after the great deluge.[17]
- Merops, a great-grandson of Caranus.[18]
Notes
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.760 ff & 2.184
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 36
- ^ Pausanias, 10.30.2
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.828 ff & 11.328 ff
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, 1.974 ff.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5
- ^ Tripp, Edward. The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. p. 375.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Merops
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Kōs
- ^ a b Etymologicum Magnum 507.56
- De Astronomica 2.16.2
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 15
- ^ Theocritus, Idylls 7.5 with scholia
- ^ Euripides, Helen 382
- ^ Conon, Narrations 10
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 4.195
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 1.250
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 7.17
References
- Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Euripides, The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. Helen, translated by Robert Potter. New York. Random House. 1938. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Euripides, Euripidis Fabulae. vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Theocritus, Idylls from The Greek Bucolic Poets translated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard Univserity Press. 1912. Online version at theoi.com
- Theocritus, Idylls edited by R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.