[1] Merope as a mythological figure, mother of Phaethon (Hyginus, fab. 154), is probably a confusion with Merops, king of the Ethiopians (RE 15.1066 'Merops 2', perhaps to be identified with Merops of Cos), and his wife Clymene, the parents of Phaethon in Euripides' play of that name (cf. Strabo 1.33; Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.750ff., 2.184, Tristia 3.4,30).
[2] For this see already kappa 2302. Note also the imaginary land invented by Theopompus of Chios in his Marvels (FGrH 115 fr.75c = Aelian, Varia Historia 3.18), with its city of peace and its city of war; 'men called Meropes' are said to live there; cf. mu 643.