Melite (mythology)
Melite or Melita (/ˈmɛlɪti/; Greek: Μελίτη) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:
- Melita, one of the Oceanids. She was one of the companions of Persephone along with her sisters when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades.[1]
- Melite, one of the Nereids[2]
- Melite (naiad), daughter of the river god Aegaeus and mother of Hyllus by Heracles.[3]
- Melite, one of the four daughters of Erasinus that became followers of Britomartis[4]
- Melite[5] or Meta[6], daughter of Hoples and the first wife of Aegeus.
- Melite (heroine), eponym of a deme in Attica
- Melite, one of the sacrificial victims of Minotaur
- Melite, daughter of Busiris and mother of Metus by Poseidon.[7]
References
- ↑ Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 415ff
- ↑ Apollodorus, Library 1.2.7ff., Hesiod, Theogony 240ff., Homer, Iliad 18.38ff., Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface
- ↑ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4. 538 ff
- ↑ Antoninus Liberalis. Metamorphosis 40
- ↑ Schol. ad Eurip. Med. 668.
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 3.15.6.
- ↑ Hyginus. Fabulae, 157
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