Merops (mitologi)

Nama Merops (Yunani Kuno: Μέροψ berarti "manusia, ummat" atau "membagi suara") mengacu pada beberapa tokoh dari mitologi Yunani:

• Merops, raja Etiopia, suami Klymene dan ayah angkat Phaethon, putra istrinya dari Helios.
• Merops, penduduk Miletus, suami Klymene (berbeda) dan ayah Pandareus.
• Merops, raja Percote, ayah dari dua putra (Amphius dan Adrastus) yang dibunuh oleh Diomedes dalam Perang Troya, dan dari dua putri, Cleite (istri Cyzicus) dan Arisbe (istri pertama Priam). Dia memiliki kemampuan meramal dan telah meramalkan kematian putra-putranya, tetapi mereka mengabaikan peringatannya. Merops juga mengajari Aesacus untuk menafsirkan mimpi.
• Merops, putra Triopas, atau autochthon dan raja Cos (pulau itu diperkirakan dinamai menurut nama putrinya). Dia menikah dengan nimfa Ethemea (atau, lebih tepatnya, Echemeia), yang ditembak oleh Artemis karena berhenti menyembah dewi. Saat Merops akan bunuh diri atas kematian istrinya, Hera mengasihaninya yang berduka dan menempatkannya di antara bintang-bintang dalam bentuk elang (rasi bintang Aquila). Merops adalah ayah dari Eumelus dan kakek dari Agron, Byssa dan Meropis, semua cucunya terkenal karena ketidaksalehan mereka. Klytie, istri Eurypylus dari Cos, dan Titanis, yang diubah oleh Artemis menjadi rusa karena kecantikannya, dianggap sebagai putri Merops.
• Merops, raja Anthemousia, yang berperang melawan Sithon dari Thrace untuk menyelamatkan putri terakhirnya Pallene, namun terbunuh.
• Merops, yang putrinya Epione adalah istri Asclepius.
• Merops, putra Hyas, yang pertama membuat orang berkumpul kembali di pemukiman setelah banjir besar Yunani kuno.
• Merops, cicit Temenus dalam silsilah Heracleidae berikut: Heracles - Hyllus - Cleodaeus - Aristomachus - Temenus - Cissius - Thestius - Merops - Aristodamis - Pheidon - Caranus.

Referensi

1. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.760 ff & 2.184
2. Antoninus Liberalis, 36
3. Pausanias, 10.30.2
4. Homer, Iliad 2.828 ff & 11.328 ff
5. Apollonius Rhodius, 1.974 ff.
6. Apollodorus, 3.12.5
7. Tripp, Edward. The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. hlm. 375. 
8. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Merops
9. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Kōs
10. Etymologicum Magnum 507.56
11. Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.16.2
12. Antoninus Liberalis, 15
13. Theocritus, Idylls 7.5 with scholia
14. Euripides, Helen 382
15. Conon, Narrations 10
16. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 4.195
17. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 1.250
18. Diodorus Siculus, 7.17

Bacaan tambahan

• 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 by Charles 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 from The Greek Bucolic Poets translated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard Univserity 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.