In
Greek mythology, the name Polymela or Polymele (
Ancient Greek: Πολυμήλη "many songs", derived from polys, "many" and melos "song") may refer to the following figures:
Polymele, daughter of
Phylas and wife of
Echecles. She was loved by
Hermes, who spotted her while she was performing a ritual dance in honor of
Artemis, and had by him a son,
Eudoros.[16]
Polymele, daughter of
Aeolus. When
Odysseus visited their island,[17] he fell in love with her and lay with her secretly. Soon after the guest's departure, Aeolus discovered his daughter crying over some spoils from
Troy which Odysseus had given to her as presents. Outraged, he was about to exact vengeance upon Polymele, but his son Diores, who was in love with his own sister, intervened and implored Aeolus to marry her to him, to which Aeolus consented.[18]
^Eustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134;
Hyginus, Fabulae 97
^Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 33, Prologue 430, pp. 41, Prologue 525.
ISBN978-0-674-96785-4.
^Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on
Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107
Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
ISBN978-0-674-96785-4.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Books V–VI translated by Konstantinos Ramiotis from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theio.com.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.
In
Greek mythology, the name Polymela or Polymele (
Ancient Greek: Πολυμήλη "many songs", derived from polys, "many" and melos "song") may refer to the following figures:
Polymele, daughter of
Phylas and wife of
Echecles. She was loved by
Hermes, who spotted her while she was performing a ritual dance in honor of
Artemis, and had by him a son,
Eudoros.[16]
Polymele, daughter of
Aeolus. When
Odysseus visited their island,[17] he fell in love with her and lay with her secretly. Soon after the guest's departure, Aeolus discovered his daughter crying over some spoils from
Troy which Odysseus had given to her as presents. Outraged, he was about to exact vengeance upon Polymele, but his son Diores, who was in love with his own sister, intervened and implored Aeolus to marry her to him, to which Aeolus consented.[18]
^Eustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134;
Hyginus, Fabulae 97
^Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 33, Prologue 430, pp. 41, Prologue 525.
ISBN978-0-674-96785-4.
^Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on
Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107
Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
ISBN978-0-674-96785-4.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Books V–VI translated by Konstantinos Ramiotis from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theio.com.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.