Meropes
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Meropes · tribes of Meropes
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Isthmean
A mythic people slain by Heracles with Telamon's help.
He took Pergamos, and with Telamon’s help he slew the tribes of Meropes, and the herdsman Alcyoneus, huge as a mountain, whom he found at Phlegrae, and he did not keep his hands off the deep-voiced bow-string, not
Nemean
A legendary people conquered by Heracles and Telamon alongside Troy.
For he looked on a hospitable city, when he came as a friend to friends, to the prosperous court of Heracles, with whom once powerful Telamon destroyed Troy and the Meropes and the great and terrible warrior Alcyoneus, but not before that giant had laid low, by hurling a rock, twelve chariots and twice twelve horse-taming heroes who were riding in them.
De Pallio
Legendary people said by Silenus to inhabit another world.
let him look to it, if anyone anywhere else holds there are men among the Meropes, as Silenus prattled into the ears of Midas — tales suited, to be sure, to grander fables.