Melite (mythology)
Melite or Melita (/ˈmɛlɪtiː/; Ancient 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][3][4][5]
- Melite, naiad daughter of the river god Aegaeus and mother of Hyllus by Heracles.[6]
- Melite, one of the four daughters of Erasinus that became followers of Britomartis.[7]
- Melite, daughter of King Busiris of Egypt and possible sister of Amphidamas. She was the mother of Metus by Poseidon.[8]
- Melite or Meta, daughter of Hoples and the first wife of Aegeus.[9][10]
- Melite, eponym of a deme in Attica
- Melite, one of the sacrificial victims of Minotaur
References
- ^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 419
- ^ Homer. Iliad, 18.42
- ^ Hesiod. Theogony, 247
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.2.7ff
- ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, Preface
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica, 4.538ff
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis. Metamorphosis, 40
- ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, 157
- ^ Schol. ad Eurip. Med. 668.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 3.15.6.
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