A giant hunter who wooed Merope on Chios, was blinded by her father Oenopion, recovered his sight at the sunrise, and was set among the stars after his death.1
Orion went to Chios and wooed Merope, daughter of Oenopion; but the king made him drunk, put out his eyes as he slept, and cast him on the beach. Orion went to the smithy of Hephaestus, set a lad on his shoulders, and bade him lead him to the sunrise; being come thither he was healed by the sun's rays.2
Homer knows him as a hunter even in death: on Calypso's isle Odysseus saw Orion driving wild beasts over the meadow of asphodel that he had himself slain on the lonely hills, bearing a bronze club unbreakable forever.3
Hesiod's Astronomy tells how Orion was stung by the scorpion and died, and how Zeus set him in the sky as a constellation — the hunter who pursues the Pleiades and the Bear through all the nights of the year.4
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