Merope (Greek myth)

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

• Merope, one of the Oceanids, the daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Meropemarried Clymenus, son of Helius, and had children: Phaethonand the girls called Heliades.[1]
• Merope, one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and Pleione.[2]
• Merope, one of the Heliades, daughter of either Helios and Clymene or of Clymenus (Helios' son) and Merope, one of the Oceanids.[1][3]
• Merope, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus. She may have been the mother of Daedalus.[4]
• Merope, also called Aero, was the consort or daughter of Oenopion.[5]
• Merope, wife of Megareusand mother of Hippomenes.[6]
• Merope, a Dorian who became the foster mother of Oedipus.;[7] otherwise the wife of Polybus was also called Periboea.
• Merope, queen of Messenia, wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus.[8]