Cleopatra
Κλεοπάτρα
(Κλεοπάτρα).
1. A daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager (Hom. Il. 9.556). is said to have hanged herself after her husband's death, or to have died of grief. Her real name was Alcyone. (Apollod. 1.8.3; Hyg. Fab. 174.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.