Aërope (daughter of Cepheus)

Aërope ( Greek  Ἀερόπη , the one with the foggy white face ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of King Cepheus of Tegea . Possibly she is equated with a daughter of Cepheus named Sterope or Asterope.

According to Pausanias gave birth Aerope the Ares the Aeropos , but died during childbirth. Ares made sure that the newborn could still be breastfed extensively on the dead mother's breast, and was then given the nickname Aphneios, the productive. A sanctuary of Aphneios near Tegea reminded of the anecdote in the time of Pausanias .

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Aërope 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 88 ( digitized version ).
• Gustav Türk : Sterope 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, column 1501 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Knaack : Aerope 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 678.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pausanias 8, 44, 7–8.
2. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 7, 3.
3. ↑ Suidas sv πλόκιον Γοργάδος.
4. ↑ Gustav Türk: Sterope 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, column 1501 f. ( Digitized version ).
5. ^ Pausanias 8:44, 8.