Cleopatra

A daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager,1 is said to have hanged herself after her husband's death, or to have died of grief. Her real name was Alcyone.2

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad ix, 556.
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 8.3; Hyginus. Fabulae, 174.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.