Merope

A daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleiades, and the wife of Sisyphus of Corinth, by whom she became the mother of Glaucus. In the constellation of the Pleiades she is the seventh and the least visible star, because she is ashamed of having had intercourse with a mortal man.

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References

Sources

  • Eustathius on Homer, p. 1155.
  • Ovid. Fasti iv, 175.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.3; iii, 10. 1.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Nemean Odes ii, 16.
  • Servius on Virgil's Georgics i, 138; comp. Homer. Iliad vi, 154.
  • 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.