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Merope
(1)
Parentage: Daughter of Atlas (1) and Pleione
Alternative parentage: Atlas (1) and Hesperis;
Atlas
(1) and Aethra (1);
Erechtheus;
Cadmus;
Queen of the
Amazons
Biographical
Along with Electra (2),
Celaeno (1),
Maia, Sterope
(1), Alcyone
(2), and Taygete,
Merope was one of the Pleiades. She was the wife of Sisyphus of Corinth,
by whom she became the mother of Glaucus. In the constellation of the
Pleiades she is the seventh and the least visible star, because she is
ashamed of having had intercourse with a mortal man.
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Sources
1. Sir W. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1870.
2. Sir W. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1870.
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