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Meropis is situated beyond the world-ocean ().Its inhabitants, the Méropes, are twice as tall as other human beings and live twice as long.Theopompos describes three cities in Meropis: Anostos (Ἄνοστος, "Place of No Return"), Eusebes (Εὐσεβής, "Pious-Town") and Machimos (Μάχιμος, "Fighting-Town").
Meropis with her family dwelled in Meropis on Kos island, and though they honored the local Koan goddess, they refused to venerate three of the major gods, Artemis, Athena and Hermes. Every time the other Koans would invite the family to a feast or sacrifice in honour of those three gods they would refuse, on account of them hating grey eyes ...
Merops was the father of Eumelus and through him grandfather of Agron, Byssa and Meropis, all of whom were notorious for their impiety. [9] Clytie, the wife of Eurypylus of Cos, [10] and Titanis, who was changed by Artemis into a deer because of her beauty, [11] were given as the daughters of Merops.
Merope (/ ˈ m ɛr ə p iː /; Ancient Greek: Μερόπη "with face turned" derived from μερος meros "part" and ωψ ops "face, eye") was originally the name of several characters in Greek mythology.
Meropis: Owl: Athena Meropis was a member of a Koan family that refused to worship Artemis, Athena and Hermes and openly insulted them. The three of them paid a visit to the family disguised, but they continued to ridicule them, so they changed them all into birds. Meropis was changed into an owl by Athena. Merops: Eagle: Hera
The family dwelt at Meropis in Kos and worshipped Gaia, who rewarded them with all kinds of goods. However, they were quite impious towards other gods and never participated in religious festivals. However, they were quite impious towards other gods and never participated in religious festivals.
The earliest extant source that mentions Hyperborea in detail, Herodotus' Histories (Book IV, Chapters 32–36), [9] dates from c. 450 BC. [10] Herodotus recorded three earlier sources that supposedly mentioned the Hyperboreans, including Hesiod and Homer, the latter purportedly having written of Hyperborea in his lost work Epigoni.
For example, Euripides tells that during "the battle the giants fought against the gods in Phlegra" that it was "the Gorgon" (possibly considered here to be one of the Giants) that Athena killed and flayed, [6] while the epic poem Meropis, has Athena kill and flay the Giant Asterus, using his impenetrable skin for her aegis. [7]