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Melite or Melita (;
Ancient Greek : Μελίτη Melitê means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid'
[1] ) was the name of several characters in
Greek mythology :
Melita, one of the 3,000
Oceanids ,
water-nymph daughters of the
Titans
Oceanus and his sister-spouse
Tethys .
[2] She was one of the companions of
Persephone along with her sisters when the daughter of
Demeter was abducted by
Hades .
[3]
Melite or
Melie ,
[4] the "gracious"
Nereid of the calm seas.
[1]
[5] She was a sea-
nymph daughter of the "
Old Man of the Sea "
Nereus and the Oceanid
Doris .
[6]
[7] Melite and her other sisters appear to
Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of
Achilles at the slaying of his friend
Patroclus .
[8] Later on, together with her sisters
Thaleia ,
Speio ,
Cymodoce ,
Nesaea ,
Panopea and Thetis, they were able to help the hero
Aeneas and his crew during a storm.
[9]
Melite ,
naiad daughter of the
river god
Aegaeus and mother of
Hyllus by
Heracles .
[10]
Melite, one of the
Erasinides , four naiad daughters of the
Argive river-god
Erasinus . Together with her sisters,
Anchiroe ,
Byze and
Maera , they became the followers of
Britomartis .
[11]
Melite, an
Egyptian princess as the daughter of King
Busiris and possible sister of
Amphidamas . She was the mother of
Metus by
Poseidon .
[12]
Melite or Meta, daughter of
Hoples and the first wife of
Aegeus .
[13]
Melite , eponym of a deme in
Attica .
[14]
Melite, one of the
sacrificial victims of the Minotaur , and the daughter of Thriagonos.
[15]
Notes
^
a
b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 230.
ISBN
9780786471119 .
^
Hyginus , Fabulae
142
^
Homeric Hymn to
Demeter
419
^ Corrected as
Melie by Scheffero in Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony
247
^
Homer ,
Iliad
18.42 ;
Apollodorus
1.2.7ff
^
Kerényi , Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks . London:
Thames and Hudson . p. 64.
^ Homer, Iliad
18.39-51
^ Virgil,
Aeneid 5.826
^
Apollonius Rhodius ,
4.538ff
^
Antoninus Liberalis ,
40
^ Hyginus, Fabulae
157
^ RE ,
s.v. Melite 6 ;
Apollodorus ,
3.15.6. ;
Scholia on
Euripides '
Medea 668.
^
Harpocration s.v. Melite (=
Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum , 1. 396, frg. 74),
Photius , Lexicon s.v. Melite ;
Suida , s.v. Melite , with references to
Hesiod and
Musaeus
^ RE ,
s.v. Thriagonos ;
Servius , Commentary on
Virgil 's
Aeneid 6.21.
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Greek text available from the same website .
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ISBN
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ISBN
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