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Merope

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Merope

Opera by Gasparini (libretto by A Zeno), produced Venice, Teatro San Cassiano, 26 December 1711. Polyphontes overthrows King Cresphontes, executing him and two of his three sons. Aepytus escapes and, after growing up, kills Polyphontus and becomes the rightful king.

Also settings by Jommelli (1741) and Graun (1756).



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whose stars are these: -- `Lovely Teygata, and dark-faced Electra, and Alcyone, and bright Asterope, and Celaeno, and Maia, and Merope, whom glorious Atlas begot.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
The last case is the best, as when in the Cresphontes Merope is about to slay her son, but, recognising who he is, spares his life.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
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