Merope (daughter of Oinopion)
Merope ( Greek Μερόπη ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of Oinopion , king of Chios , and the nymph Helike . Orion came to Chios, fell in love with Merope and, for her sake, cleared the island of wild animals. Oinopion refused him as a suitor. Thereupon Merope was raped by Orion and as a result, Oinopion blinded him in his sleep and threw him from the island in revenge .
swell
- Libraries of Apollodorus 1.25
- Hyginus Mythographus , De astronomia 2,34
- Parthenios by Nikaia , Erotika pathemata 20
Remarks
- ↑ Parthenios of Nikaia calls her Haëro.
literature
- Lutz Käppel: Merope 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 9.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Merope 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2838 f. ( Digitized version ).