- Aërope
Aërope (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Ἀερόπη) was, in
Greek mythology , a daughter ofCatreus , king ofCrete , and granddaughter ofMinos . [Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
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contribution = Aerope
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 36
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year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0045.html] Her father, who had received anoracle that he should lose his life by one of his children, gave her and her sister,Clymene , toNauplius , who was to sell them in a foreign land. Another sister, Apemone, and her brother, Aethemenes, who had heard of the oracle, had left Crete and gone toRhodes . Aërope afterwards married eitherAtreus orPleisthenes , the son ofAtreus , and became the mother ofAgamemnon andMenelaus . ["Bibliotheca" iii. 2. § 1, &c.] [Servius, "ad Aen." i. 458.] [Dictys Cretensis i. 1.] According to the version where Agamemnon and Menelaus's father was Pleisthenes, after the death of Pleisthenes, Aërope married Atreus, and her two sons, who were educated by Atreus, were generally believed to be his sons. Aërope, however, was unfaithful to Atreus, being seduced byThyestes . [Euripides , "Orestes 5, &c.] [Euripides , "Helen" 397.] [Hyginus, "Fabulae" 87.] [Schol. "ad Hom." 11. ii. 249.] [Servius, "ad Aen." xi. 262.]References
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