MEROPE, in Fabulous History, one of the Atlan-
tides. She married Sisyphus the son of Æolus, and like
her sisters was changed into a constellation after death.
It is said that in the constellation of the Pleiades the
star of Merope appears more dim and obscure than the
rest, because she, as the poets observe, married a mor-
tal, while her sisters married some of the gods or their
descendants.