The nameMerops (Ancient Greek: Μέροψ means "mankind, mortals" or "dividing the voice") refers to several figures fromGreek mythology:

• Merops, king ofEthiopia, husband ofClymene and adoptive father ofPhaethon, his wife's son byHelios.^[1]
• Merops, a resident ofMiletus and father ofPandareus.^[2]
• Merops, king ofPercote, father of two sons (Amphius andAdrastus) killed byDiomedes in theTrojan War, and of two daughters,Cleite, wife ofCyzicus, andArisbe, the first wife ofPriam. He had prophetic abilities and foresaw the deaths of his sons, but they ignored his warnings.^[3] Merops also taught Aesacus to interpret dreams.^[4]
• Merops, a son ofTriopas,^[5] or anautochthon^[6] and a king ofCos (the island was thought to have been named after his daughter^[7]). He was married to thenymphEthemea (or, more correctly,Echemeia^[7]), who was shot byArtemis for having ceased to worship the goddess and snatched away alive byPersephone.^[8] As Merops was about to commit suicide over his wifeEchemeia's death,Hera took pity on the grieving widower and changed his shape into that of an eagle, and later placed him among the stars (the constellationAquila).^[9] Merops was the father ofEumelus and through him grandfather ofAgron,Byssa andMeropis, all of whom were notorious for their impiety.^[10]Clytie, the wife ofEurypylus of Cos,^[11] were given as the daughters of Merops.
• Merops, the father ofTitanis, who was changed by Artemis into a deer because of her beauty.^[12]
• Merops, king ofAnthemousia, who fought againstSithon ofThrace for the hand of the latter's daughterPallene and was killed.^[13]
• Merops, whose daughterEpione was the wife ofAsclepius.^[14]
• Merops, son ofHyas, who was the first to make people reassemble in settlements after thegreat deluge.^[15]
• Merops, a great-grandson ofTemenus in the following genealogy of theHeracleidae:Heracles -Hyllus -Cleodaeus -Aristomachus - Temenus - Cissius - Thestius - Merops - Aristodamis - Pheidon -Caranus.^[16]

• Antoninus Liberalis,The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Diodorus Siculus,The Library of History translated byCharles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes.Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus,Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Euripides,The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. Helen, translated by Robert Potter. New York. Random House. 1938.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Euripides,Euripidis Fabulae.vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Theocritus,Idylls fromThe Greek Bucolic Poets translated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1912.Online version at theoi.com
• Theocritus,Idylls edited by R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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