Merope

1. Greek Mythology. One of the Pleiades, who hid her face in shame after marrying a mortal.
2. One of the six stars in the Pleiades cluster, faintly visible to the unaided eye.

Meropē, name of several heroines in Greek myth.

1. Wife of Cresphontēs (see HERACLEIDAE). Cresphontes, king of Messenia, was killed by Polyphontēs (another descendant of Heracles), as were two of his sons. A third son, Aepytus, was saved by Merope and sent out of the country. Merope was then forced to marry Polyphontes, but when Aepytus was grown up he returned, killed Polyphontes, and recovered the throne.

2. One of the Pleiaděs, the seven daughters of Atlas and the Oceanid Pleionē.

3. The wife of Sisyphus.

4. Also known as Polyboea, the wife of Polybus, king of Corinth, who brought up Oedipus.

Merope (English pronunciation: /ˈmɛrəpiː/; Greek Μερόπη) was the name of several, probably unrelated, characters in Greek mythology.

• Merope (Heliades), one of the Heliades, daughter of Helios (or his son Clymenus) and Clymene
• Merope (Oedipus), foster mother of Oedipus, wife of Polybus
• Merope (Oenopion), consort/daughter of Oenopion
• Merope (Pleiades), one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and Pleione
• Merope, daughter of Cypselos and queen of Messenia

Other uses

• 1051 Merope, an asteroid
• Merope (plant), a plant genus in the subfamily Aurantioideae
• Merope (star), star in the constellation Taurus and a member of the Pleiades star cluster
• Merope Riddle (née Gaunt), mother of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Mérope, a play by Voltaire

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