Merops Perkosios

Merops ( Greek  Μέροψ ) from Perkote on the Hellespont , hence Merops Perkosios , is a legendary king of Rhyndakos and a seer in Greek mythology .

His two sons Amphios and Adrastos are killed in the Trojan War fighting the Greeks. His daughter Arisbe was Priam's first wife . His daughter Kleite was married to Kyzikos . In the Etymologicum magnum it is called percote.

In the sources he is referred to as the King of Rhyndakos. The Rhyndakos is still known today as a river, but is not a corresponding territory or people. It is therefore to be read that he was ruler of an area on the south coast of the Marmara Sea.

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus 3.12.5
• Homer Iliad 2.830ff, 11.392
• Scholion at Iliad 24.497
• Stephanos of Byzantium sv Arisbe
• Strabo 13,586
• Johannes Tzetzes Scholion to Alexandra 224
• Etymologicum magnum (ed.Gaisford, Oxford 1848) p. 518, 2

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Merops 3) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2840 f. ( Digitized version ).