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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 172 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEROPE  , the name of several figures in

Greek
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mythology . The most important of them are the following: (I) The daughter of Cypselius, king of
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Arcadia, and wife of Cresphontes, ruler of Messenia . During an insurrection Cresphontes and two of his sons were murdered and the
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throne seized by Polyphontes, who forced Merope to marry him . A third son, Aepytus, contrived to escape, and, subsequently returning to Messenia, put Polyphontes to
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death and recovered his
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father's
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kingdom (
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Apollodorus ii . 8, 5;
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Pausanias iv . 3, 6) . The fortunes of Merope' have furnished the subject of tragedies by Euripides (Cresphontes, not extant), Voltaire, Maffei and Matthew Arnold . (2) The daughter of
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Atlas and wife of
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Sisyphus . She was one of the seven Pleiades,, but remained invisible, hiding her
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light for shame at having become the wife of a mortal (Apollodorus 9, 3; 10, r; Ovid,
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Fasti, iv . 175) .

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