Merope (wife of Polybos)

Merope ( Greek  Μερόπη ) is in Greek mythology the wife of King Polybos of Corinth (or Sicyon ).

Merope takes on a found child as foster mother who has swollen feet and is therefore called Oedipus (swelling foot ). Since their marriage is still childless, she raised it like her own.

Sophocles processed this version dramatically. Hyginus Mythographus calls the wife of Polybos and nurse of Oedipus Periboia .

swell

• Sophocles: King Oedipus 775, 990.
• Pisandros at Scholion at Euripides : Phoenicians 1760.
• Hyginus Mythographus: fabulae 66.

literature

• Lutz Käppel: Merope 4th In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 9.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Merope 7 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2839 ( digitized version ).