Arisbe (daughter of Merops)

Arisbe ( Greek  Ἀρίσβη ), daughter of Merops Perkosios , was the first wife of Priam in Greek mythology .

The two had a son, Aisakus . He was a seer like his grandfather Merops. In order to remarry, Priam gave his wife to Hyrtakos , with whom she fathered the son Asios , who was killed by Idomeneus before Troy .

The city of Arisbe in the Troas was named after her.

After Stephanos of Byzantium she was the first wife of Paris .

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• Libraries of Apollodorus 3,12,5
• Stephanos of Byzantium sv Arisbe
• Johannes Tzetzes Scholion at Lykophron 224; Scholion at Iliad 24,497
• Servius commentary on Virgil Aeneid 2,32; 9,264

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 547 – Arisbe 1 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Tümpel : Arisbe 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume 2.1, Stuttgart 1893ff., Col. 847 f.