Aërope (Ancient Greek: ) was, in
Greek mythologyGreek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
, a daughter of
CatreusIn Greek mythology, Catreus was a son of Minos and Pasiphaë. He had one son, Althaemenes, and three daughters, Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene. An oracle told Catreus that one of his children would murder him. Terrified he would do so, Althaemenes took Apemosyne and left Crete for Rhodes...
, king of
CreteCrete is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km²...
, and granddaughter of
MinosIn Greek mythology, Minos was a mythical king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Hades. The Minoan civilization of pre-Hellene Crete has been named after him...
. Her father, who had received an
oracleAn oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. It may also be a revealed prediction or precognition of the future, from deities, that is spoken through another object or life-form ....
that he should lose his life by one of his children, gave her and her sister,
ClymeneClymene or Klymenê may refer to:*104 Klymene, an asteroid*Clymene Dolphin *Clymene or Asia , an Oceanid, wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius...
, to
NaupliusNauplia, Nauplius or Nauplios may refer to :Greece-related* Nauplius , the son of Poseidon and Amymone in Greek mythology* Nauplia, a harbor town in Greece...
, who was to sell them in a foreign land. Another sister, Apemone, and her brother, Aethemenes, who had heard of the oracle, had left Crete and gone to
RhodesRhodes is a Greek island approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea...
. Aërope afterwards married either
AtreusIn Greek mythology, Atreus was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, a king of Mycenae, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae....
or
PleisthenesIn Greek mythology, Pleisthenes was either the son of Pelops, or Pelops' son Atreus . His wife was either Aerope or Cleolla, daughter of Dias, another son of Pelops. Pleisthenes was also sometimes said to be the bastard son of Thyestes and Aerope and brother of Tantalus...
, the son of
AtreusIn Greek mythology, Atreus was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, a king of Mycenae, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae....
, and became the mother of
AgamemnonIn Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope; the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos...
and
MenelausMenelaus may refer to;*Menelaus, one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope*Menelaus on the Moon, named after Menelaus of Alexandria.*Menelaus , brother of Ptolemy I Soter...
.
Aërope (Ancient Greek: ) was, in
Greek mythologyGreek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
, a daughter of
CatreusIn Greek mythology, Catreus was a son of Minos and Pasiphaë. He had one son, Althaemenes, and three daughters, Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene. An oracle told Catreus that one of his children would murder him. Terrified he would do so, Althaemenes took Apemosyne and left Crete for Rhodes...
, king of
CreteCrete is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km²...
, and granddaughter of
MinosIn Greek mythology, Minos was a mythical king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Hades. The Minoan civilization of pre-Hellene Crete has been named after him...
. Her father, who had received an
oracleAn oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. It may also be a revealed prediction or precognition of the future, from deities, that is spoken through another object or life-form ....
that he should lose his life by one of his children, gave her and her sister,
ClymeneClymene or Klymenê may refer to:*104 Klymene, an asteroid*Clymene Dolphin *Clymene or Asia , an Oceanid, wife of Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Menoetius...
, to
NaupliusNauplia, Nauplius or Nauplios may refer to :Greece-related* Nauplius , the son of Poseidon and Amymone in Greek mythology* Nauplia, a harbor town in Greece...
, who was to sell them in a foreign land. Another sister, Apemone, and her brother, Aethemenes, who had heard of the oracle, had left Crete and gone to
RhodesRhodes is a Greek island approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea...
. Aërope afterwards married either
AtreusIn Greek mythology, Atreus was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, a king of Mycenae, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae....
or
PleisthenesIn Greek mythology, Pleisthenes was either the son of Pelops, or Pelops' son Atreus . His wife was either Aerope or Cleolla, daughter of Dias, another son of Pelops. Pleisthenes was also sometimes said to be the bastard son of Thyestes and Aerope and brother of Tantalus...
, the son of
AtreusIn Greek mythology, Atreus was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, a king of Mycenae, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae....
, and became the mother of
AgamemnonIn Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope; the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos...
and
MenelausMenelaus may refer to;*Menelaus, one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope*Menelaus on the Moon, named after Menelaus of Alexandria.*Menelaus , brother of Ptolemy I Soter...
. According to the version where Agamemnon and Menelaus's father was Pleisthenes, after the death of Pleisthenes, Aërope married Atreus, and her two sons, who were educated by Atreus, were generally believed to be his sons. Aërope, however, was unfaithful to Atreus, being seduced by
ThyestesIn Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops, King of Olympia, and Hippodamia and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. Thyestes and his twin brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus in their desire for the throne of Olympia...
.