Marpessa

The daughter of Evenus and Alcippe. She was beloved by Apollo and the hero Idas. Fearing that Apollo would abandon her in old age, she chose Idas over the god. Their daughter is Cleopatra, wife of Meleager.

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References

Sources

  • Eustathius on Homer's Iliad ix, 557.
  • Plutarch. Greek and Roman Parallel Stories, 40.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 7.8-9.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.