Aerope
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Aerope of Crete · Aerope, the wife of Atreus · Aëropes
in the texts
Orations
Mythological figure invoked as a type of treacherous kinswoman
Just, then, as the law in no way allows those women to undertake matters of greater worth, but it is fixed how far it is fitting for them to go—in the same manner, I think, one must share with the many up to the smallest matters, but never in greater affairs, or necessary counsels, or the security that concerns one's life.
and that Aerope, the wife of Atreus, admitted the embrace of Thyestes;