Aerope (Ἀερόπη) is the Greek name meaning "like the air." The Cretan princess granddaughter of Minos, who married Atreus and bore Agamemnon and Menelaus. Her affair with Thyestes triggered the curse of the House of Atreus.
Featured in Aeschylus's Oresteia.
Aerope reduces to one — the number of Greek tragedy.