Merope (daughter of Kypselus)
Merope ( Greek Μερόπη ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of Kypselus , widow of Kresphontes and wife of Polyphontes .
After Kresphontes was killed in an uprising, Merope was forcibly married to the new ruler of Messenia , the Heraclid Polyphontes, but was able to save one of Kresphontes' sons to Arcadia to her father Kypselus . The son later returned to avenge his father. According to Pausanias and the library of Apollodorus , the son's name was Aipytos , according to Hyginus Mythographus Telephontes . At Euripides he was called Kresphontes like his father.
She is the character of a fragment of the drama by Euripides and the heroine of the tragedies by Scipione Maffei ( Merope , 1714), Voltaire ( La Mérope française , 1736) and Vittorio Alfieri ( Merope , 1785).
swell
- Euripides, Kresphontes Fragments
literature
- A. Harder: Euripides' Kresphontes and Archelaos. 1985
- Lutz Käppel: Merope 3rd In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 9.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Merope 6 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2838 f. ( Digitized version ).