Aerope
- the wife of Atreus, Ov. Tr. 2, 391; Hyg. Fab. 86, 88.
(Ἀερόπη), a daughter of Crateus, king of Crete, and granddaughter of Minos. Her father, who had received an oracle that he should lose his life by one of his children, gave her and her sister, Clymene, to Nauplius, who was to sell them in a foreign land. Another sister, Apemone, and her brother. Aethemlenes, who had heard of the oracle, had left Crete and gone to Rhodes. Aerope afterwards married Pleisthenes, the son of Atreus, and became by him the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus. (Apollod. 3.2.1, &c.; Serv. ad Aen. 1.458; Dictys Cret. 1.1.) After the death of Pleisthenes Aeriope married Atreus, and her two sons, who were educated by Atreus, were generally believed to be his sons. Aerope, however, became faithless to Atreus, being seduced by Thyests. (Eur. Orest. 5, &c., Helen. 397; Hyg. Fab. 87; Schol. ad Hom. Il. 2.249; Serv. ad Aen. 11.262.) [L.S]
(Ἀερόπη). The daughter of Catreus, king of Crete, and wife of Plisthenes, the son of Atreus, by whom she became the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaüs. After the death of Plisthenes, Aëropé married Atreus; and her two sons, who were educated by Atreus, were generally believed to be his sons. Aëropé was faithless to Atreus, being seduced by Thyestes. See Pelopidae.
- Apollod. 3.1.4
- wife of Plisthenes, mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus: Apollod. 3.2.1
- wife of Atreus, loves his brother Thyestes: Apollod. E.2.7, Apollod. E.2.10
- gives him the golden lamb: Apollod. 2.4.5
- mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus: Apollod. 2.4.11
- has son Aeropus by Ares: Paus. 8.44.7ff.