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In Greek mythology, Panopea (Ancient Greek: Πανόπεια Panopeia) or Panope (Πανόπη) may refer to various characters. The names mean 'panorama' or means 'of the beautiful husband'.<ref name=":022">Template:Cite book</ref>

  • Panope or Poenope,<ref name=":0">Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus)</ref> the Nereid of the sea panorama.<ref name=":022" /> She was one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.<ref>Homer, Iliad 18.45; Apollodorus, 1.2.7</ref> Panope, together with Doto and Galatea, escorted her sister Thetis out of the sea to her wedding with Peleus.<ref>Valerius Flaccus, 1.130 ff.</ref> Later on, Panope and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.<ref name="Hom">Homer, Iliad 18.39-51</ref>
  • Panopea, Panopeia<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> or Panopaea<ref name=":0" />, another 'virgin' Nereid<ref>Hesiod, Theogony 250</ref> who together with her sisters, Thetis, Nesaea, Spio, Thalia, Cymodoce and Melite, helped the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.<ref>Virgil, Aeneid 5.825</ref> She may be the same with her above supposed sister who was doubled by Hyginus in his account.
  • Panope, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede<ref name=":02">Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222</ref> or by one of his many wives.<ref name=":1">Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2</ref> When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.9</ref> Panope with her other sisters, except for one,<ref>Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51</ref> all laid with the hero in a night,<ref>Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)</ref> a week<ref>Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51</ref> or for 50 days<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224</ref> as what their father strongly desired it to be.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3</ref> Panope bore Heracles a son, Threpsippas.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.7.8</ref>

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