Merope (daughter of Atlas)

Merope ( Greek  Μερόπη ) is one of the seven Pleiades in Greek mythology , a daughter of Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione .

She was the only one of the Pleiades to marry a mortal, Sisyphus . Out of shame about this she covered her face and is therefore also the least bright star of the seven stars . With Sisyphus she fathered a son, Glaucus .

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus 1.85; 3.110
• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae praefatio ; 192
• Ovid , Fasti 4,175

literature

• Lutz Käppel: Merope 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 9.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Merope 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2838 f. ( Digitized version ).