Merŏpe

, one of the At lan tides. She married Sisyphus son of Æolus, and, like her sisters, was changed into a constellation after death. See: Pleiades . It is said, that in the constellation of the Pleiades the star of Merope appears more dim and obscure than the rest, because she, as the poets observe, married a mortal, while her sisters married some of the gods or their descendants. Ovid , Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 175 .— Diodorus , bk. 4 .— Hyginus , fable 192.— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .――A daughter of Cypselus, who married Cresphontes king of Me enia, by whom she had three children. Her husband and two of her children were murdered by Polyphon tes. The murderer obliged her to marry him, and she would have been forced to comply had not Epytus or Telephontes, her third son, revenged his father’s death by a a inating Polyphon tes. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 6 .— Pausanias , bk. 4 , ch. 3 .――A daughter of Œnopion, beloved by Orion. Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 4 .――A daughter of the Cebrenus, who married Æsac us the son of Priam.――A daughter of Erechtheus, mother of Dædal us. Plutarch , These us .――A daughter of Pandar us.――A daughter of the river Sangar i us, who married king Priam.