MEROPE  , the name of several figures in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology . The most important of them are the following: (I) The daughter of Cypselius, See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• ARCADIA

Arcadia, and wife of Cresphontes, ruler of See also:

• MESSENIA (Gr. M€ rcr vrl or M€o o vta)

Messenia . During an insurrection Cresphontes and two of his sons were murdered and the See also:

• THRONE

throne seized by Polyphontes, who forced Merope to marry him . A third son, Aepytus, contrived to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape, and, subsequently returning to Messenia, put Polyphontes to See also:

• DEATH

death and recovered his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom (See also:

• APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus ii . 8, 5; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias iv . 3, 6) . The fortunes of Merope' have furnished the subject of tragedies by See also:

• EURIPIDES (48o–4o6 B.C.)

Euripides (Cresphontes, not extant), See also:

• VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE (1694–1778)

Voltaire, See also:

• MAFFEI, FRANCESCO SCIPIONE, MARCHESE DI (1675-1755)

Maffei and See also:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew See also:

• ARNOLD
• ARNOLD, BENEDICT (1741-1801)
• ARNOLD, GOTTFRIED (1666-1714)
• ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822-1888)
• ARNOLD, SAMUEL (1740--18o2)
• ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN (1832-1904)
• ARNOLD, THOMAS (1745-1842)

Arnold . (2) The daughter of See also:

• ATLAS

Atlas and wife of See also:

• SISYPHUS

Sisyphus . She was one of the seven See also:

• PLEIADES
• PLEIADES, ATLANTIDES

Pleiades,, but remained invisible, hiding her See also:

• LIGHT

light for shame at having become the wife of a mortal (Apollodorus 9, 3; 10, r; See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, See also:

• FASTI

Fasti, iv . 175) .