claims these were the children that Atreus famously fed to Thyestes. Additionally, Aerope has also been named as the mother of a daughter, Anaxibia.

Mythology

In Crete

According to the tradition followed by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women (Kressai), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned. Instead, Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Pleisthenes.

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