Merope (/ˈmɛrəpiː/; 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.

• Merope, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. She married Clymenus, son of Helius, and had children with him: Phaethon and the girls called Heliades.^[1]
• Merope, one of the Pleiades, daughter of Atlas and Pleione.^[2]
• Merope, one of the Heliades, daughter of either Helios and Clymene or of Clymenus (Helios' son) and Merope, one of the Oceanids.^[3]
• Merope, an Athenian princess as the daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens and possibly Praxithea, daughter of Phrasimus and Diogenia. She may have been the mother of Daedalus.^[4] The latter was attributed to various parentage: (1) Eupalamus^[5] and Alcippe,^[6] (2) Metion^[7] and Iphinoe,^[8] (3) Phrasmede^[9] or (4) Palamaon.^[10]
• Merope, also called Aero,^[11] was the consort or daughter of Oenopion.^[12]
• Merope, a queen of Onchestus as the wife of King Megareus and mother of Hippomenes.^[13]
• Merope, a Dorian who became the foster mother of Oedipus;^[14] otherwise the wife of Polybus was also called Periboea.^[15]
• Merope, queen of Messenia, wife of Cresphontes and mother of Aepytus.^[16]