Aërope

[ey-er-uh-pee]

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. the wife of Atreus, seduced by her brother-in-law Thyestes.

Example Sentences

Heroines like Medea, Phaedra, Stheneboia, Aërope, Clytemnestra, perhaps fill the imagination more than those of the angelic or devoted type—Alcestis, who died to save her husband, Evadne and Laodamia, who could not survive theirs, and all the great list of virgin-martyrs.

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The songs in which Aëropê poured out her love were remembered against Euripides after his death.

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The Cretan Women told the story of Aëropê, a Cretan princess who secretly loved a squire or young soldier.

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And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.

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Wondrous art!—on the same day, he is mad Athamas and shrinking Ino; he is Atreus, and again he is Thyestes, and next Aegisthus or Aerope; all one man's work.

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