(), a daughter of Crateus, king of Crete, and
granddaughter of Minos. Her father, who had received an oracle that he should lose his life by
one of his children, gave her and her sister, Clymene, to Nauplius, who was to sell them in a
foreign land. Another sister, Apemone, and her brother. Aethemlenes, who had heard of the
oracle, had left Crete and gone to Rhodes. Aerope afterwards married Pleisthenes, the son of
Atreus, and became by him the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus. (Helen. 397; ad Hom. Il. 2.249;