Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Merŏpé

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Merŏpé

（Μερόπη).

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One of the Heliades or sisters of Phaëthon.

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Daughter of Atlas, one of the Pleiades, wife of Sisyphus of Corinth and 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 (Apollod. i.9.3; iii. 10.1).

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Daughter of Cypselus, wife of Cresphontes, and mother of Aepytus. See Aepytus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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