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Merope (/ˈmɛrəpiː/; Ancient Greek: Μερόπη "with face turned" derived from μερος meros "part" and ωψ ops "face, eye") was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology.

Notes

  1. Hyginus, Fabulae 154
  2. Apollodorus, 3.10.1
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae 154; Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.340
  4. Plutarch, Theseus 19.5
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae 39, 244 & 274; Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.14; Suida, s.v. Πέρδικος ἱερόν; Scholiast ad Plato, Republic 7.529d
  6. Apollodorus, 3.15.8; Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, Ion 121a
  7. Diodorus Siculus, 4.76.1; Plato, Ion 533a; Scholia ad Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 472
  8. Scholia ad Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468 & 472
  9. Scholia ad Plato, The Republic p. 529
  10. Pausanias, 9.3.2
  11. Parthenius, 20
  12. Hesiod, Astronomia 4
  13. Hyginus, Fabulae 185; Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.605
  14. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 775 & 990
  15. Apollodorus, 3.5.7
  16. Apollodorus, 2.8.5; Pausanias, 4.3.6
  17. Eustathius on Homer's Odyssey 19.517

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