Merope may refer to:
Mythology
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Merope (mythology)
Merope (; 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 da ...
, several, probably unrelated, characters in Greek mythology
Books and music
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''Merope'' (Giacomelli), an 18th-century opera with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno and music by several composers including Geminiano Giacomelli and Riccardo Broschi
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''Merope'', a 1713 play by
Francesco Scipione Maffei
Francesco Scipione Maffei (; 1 June 1675 – 11 February 1755) was an Italian writer and art critic, author of many articles and plays. An antiquarian with a humanist education whose publications on Etruscan antiquities stand as incunables of ...
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''Merope'' (play), a 1731 play by George Jeffreys
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Mérope
''Mérope'' (original French title: ''La Mérope Française'') is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. The text is a reworking by Voltaire of the Italian tragedy ''Merope'' (1713) by Scipione Maffei, dating from 1736/1737. The play premiered in ...
'', a 1743 play by
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his ''Pen name, nom de plume'' Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment writer, philosopher (''philosophe''), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit ...
* Merope Ward, a main character in the 2010 two-part novel ''
Blackout/All Clear
''Blackout'' and ''All Clear'' are the two volumes that constitute a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Connie Willis. ''Blackout'' was published February 2, 2010 by Spectra. The second part, the conclusion ''All Clear'', was relea ...
'' by Connie Willis
* "Merope", tragic poem by
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold (academic), Tom Arnold, literary professor, and Willi ...
, 1858
Plants and animals
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Merope tuber
''Merope tuber'', the earwigfly or forcepfly, is the monotypic, only species in the genus ''Merope'', and the only living member of the family Meropeidae in North America. It occurs throughout the east from Ontario to Georgia, and west to Kansa ...
'', a genus of Mecoptera
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Merope angulata
''Merope angulata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is a tree that ranges from northeastern India through Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, the Philippin ...
'', a species of flowering plant and the sole member of genus ''Merope''
Astronomy
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1051 Merope
1051 Merope is a dark Alauda asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 16 September 1925, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in Heide ...
, an asteroid
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Merope (star)
Merope , designated 23 Tauri (abbreviated 23 Tau), is a star in the constellation of Taurus (constellation), Taurus and a member of the Pleiades open cluster, star cluster. It is approximately away.
Distance
Despite being one of ...
, in the constellation Taurus and a member of the Pleiades star cluster
Places
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Merope (region) In the 14th-century Balkans, Merope (, , ''Meropa'') was a subregion of Thrace in modern Northern Greece and southern Bulgaria. The region lay in the western and middle part of the Rhodope Mountains.
The term is only found in the writings of Byzan ...
, historical region of Thrace
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