In Greek mythology, Metope (Ancient Greek: Μετώπη) is the name of several figures, the best known being an Arcadian naiad. This Metope was a daughter of the river god Ladon and thus a sister of Daphne; her waters lay near the town of Stymphalus in the Peloponnesus. She married the river god Asopus, by whom she bore numerous daughters — among them Aegina — and several sons. The name is also borne by other minor figures, including a possible mother of Hecuba and an Epirotian princess, daughter of King Echetus.
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I.Overview
In Greek mythology, Metope (Ancient Greek: Μετώπη) may refer to several distinct figures who share the name. The most prominent is an Arcadian naiad, the wife of the river god Asopus and mother of Aegina; others include a daughter of Asopus, a consort of the river Sangarius, and an Epirotian princess.
II.Metope, the Arcadian naiad
Metope was the Arcadian naiad daughter of the river god Ladon, and thus a sister of Daphne. Her waters were near the town of Stymphalus in the Peloponnesus.
She married the river god Asopus, by whom she had several daughters — variously numbered as twelve or twenty — including Aegina, Salamis, Thebe, Corcyra, Tanagra, Thespia, Cleone, Sinope, Peirene, Asopis, Ornea, Chalcis, Harpina and Ismene. She also bore sons, among them Pelagon (Pelasgus) and Ismenus.
III.Other figures named Metope
A figure called Metope appears in some accounts as a daughter of the river god Asopus — that is, a daughter of the very god whom the Arcadian naiad married.
Another Metope is named as the consort of the river god Sangarius. Some sources make this pair the possible parents of Hecuba. She may be identical with, or different from, the naiad described above.
A further Metope was an Epirotian princess, the daughter of King Echetus. She had an affair with a lover, and as punishment her father mutilated the lover and blinded Metope by piercing her eyes with bronze needles. He then imprisoned her in a tower and gave her grains of bronze, promising that she would regain her sight once she had ground these grains into flour.