Merops (King of the Meroper)

Merops ( Greek  Μέροψ ) was in Greek mythology a mythical king of the Meroper on the island of Kos , son of Triopas, husband of Echemeia and father of a daughter who gave the island its name. When his wife, the goddess Artemis, was insulted and banished alive into the underworld , Merops was so heartbroken over the loss that he would have committed his own life if Hera had not transformed him into an eagle and placed him in the sky as a constellation .

Presumably he can be seen identically with that Merops of Kos, who is the father of Eumelos, father of Agron .

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• Hyginus Mythographus Poeticon Astronomicon 2.16
• Stephanos of Byzantium Ethnika sv Merops and Kos

literature

• Hermann Dibbelt: Quaestiones Coae mythologae. Dissertation Greifswalde 1891, p. 3ff
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Merops 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2840 f. ( Digitized version ).