One of the seven Pleiades, daughters of Atlas. Where her six sisters lay with immortals, Merope alone wedded a mortal — Sisyphus — and for that her star is said to shine dimmest of the seven; by him she bore Glaucus, reckoned the father of Bellerophon.1
Apollodorus sets her among her sisters: to Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, were born seven daughters called the Pleiades — Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia. Of these Sterope was given to Oenomaus and Merope to Sisyphus.2
Her marriage roots the Corinthian branch of the Aeolids. Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, founded Ephyra — afterward called Corinth — and married Merope, daughter of Atlas; they had a son Glaucus, who by Eurymede had Bellerophon.3
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