Editing Aerope (section)

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The Roman mythographer [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] has Agamemnon as the son of Aerope and Atreus<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97].</ref> and Tantalus and Plethenes as the sons of Aerope and Thyestes, with these being the children that Atreus fed to Thyestes.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#246 246].</ref>
 
In [[Ovid]]'s ''[[Ars Amatoria]]'', Aerope is given as one of several examples of "women's lust" being "keener" than men's and having "more of madness":<ref>Armstrong, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=R2wTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA112 112], [https://books.google.com/books?id=R2wTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 114&ndash;115]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Ars Amatoria]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-art_love/1929/pb_LCL232.35.xml 1.327&ndash;330], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-art_love/1929/pb_LCL232.37.xml 1.341&ndash;342].</ref>
:Had the Cretan woman abstained from love for Thyestes (and is it such a feat to be able to do without a particular man?), Phoebus had not broken off in mid-career, and wresting his car about turned round his steeds to face the dawn.

The mythographer [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]] gives the following account:
:Catreus, son of Minos, had three daughters, Aerope, Clymene, and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes. When Catreus inquired of the oracle how his life should end, the god said that he would die by the hand of one of his children. ... And Catreus gave Aerope and Clymene to Nauplius to sell into foreign lands; and of these two Aerope became the wife of Plisthenes, who begat Agamemnon and Menelaus.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.2 3.2].</ref>

However elsewhere he says that Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Aerope and Atreus<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.Epit+E.3.12 E.3.12].</ref> and that
:the wife of Atreus was Aerope, daughter of Catreus, and she loved Thyestes. And Atreus once vowed to sacrifice to Artemis the finest of his flocks; but when a golden lamb appeared, they say that he neglected to perform his vow, and having choked the lamb, he deposited it in a box and kept it there, and Aerope gave it to Thyestes, by whom she had been debauched.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.Epit+E.2.10 E.2.10&ndash;11].</ref>