AN ARCADIAN PRINCESS
WAS MEROPE, WHOSE FATHER
MARRIED HER TO THE MESSINIAN
KING CRESFONTES.
THEN HER HUSBAND
WAS MURDERED,
ALONG WITH TWO OF HER THREE SONS,
AND FORCIBLY THE MURDERER
TOOK HER AS HIS WIFE.
BUT SHE CLEVERLY MANAGED
TO SAVE AEPYTUS
– SO THAT HE COULD AVENGE
THE WRONGFUL DEATHS
AND BE RECOGNIZED AS KING
BY HIS PEOPLE.
Intelligence is the weapon of the “weakest” and in the end it always triumphs
For more inspiration: Merope gave her name to a village in the Municipality of Oichalia, in modern times. Α nice uninhabited islet outside the picturesque Kardamyli, in the Messinian side of Mani, is also called Merope.
