Sophocles, in his play ''Ajax'', may also refer to Aerope's father finding her in bed with a man and handing her over to Nauplius to be drowned. However, the potentially corrupt text may instead refer to Aerope's husband Atreus finding her in bed with Thyestes, and having her drowned (see below).

The mythographer Apollodorus followed a different tradition, with no mention of any sexual transgression.