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In Greek mythology, Melia or Melie (Ancient Greek Μελία, Μελίη) was the name of several figures. [1] The name Melia comes from μελία , the ancient Greek word for ash-tree . [ 2 ] In the plural, the Meliae were a class of nymphs associated with trees, particularly ash-trees.
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Melia (Ancient Greek: Μελία), a daughter of the Titan Oceanus, was the consort of Apollo, and the mother, by Apollo, of the Theban hero and prophet Tenerus. She was also the mother (or sister) of Ismenus, god of the Theban river of the same name. Melia was an important cult figure at Thebes. She was ...
In Greek mythology, the Meliae (also called Meliads) (/ ˈ m iː l i. iː /; Ancient Greek: Μελίαι, romanized: Melíai or Μελιάδες, Meliádes) were usually considered to be the nymphs of the ash tree, whose name they shared.
In Greek mythology, Melia (Ancient Greek Μελία, Μελίη) was an Oceanid, one of the 3,000 water nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. [1] She was the mother of culture hero Phoroneus, and Aegialeus [2] (or Phegeus [3]), by her brother Inachus, the river-god of Argos. [4]
In Greek mythology, Melia or Melie (Ancient Greek: Μελίη) was a Bithynian nymph, who was, by Poseidon, the mother of Amycus and Mygdon, both kings of the Bebryces. [1] The name Melia perhaps derived from a misreading of a line of Apollonius of Rhodes containing Βιθυνὶς Μελίη, which instead of being read as Melia from Bithynia, might instead be read as Bithynis the Melia, i.e ...
Melia (mythology), the name of several figures; Melia, the singular form of Meliae, a type of nymph; Melia (consort of Poseidon), a mythical figure; Melia (consort of Apollo), a mythical figure; Melia (consort of Inachus), a mythical figure
] The mother of these children was variously described in the sources, either an Oceanid named Melia, called the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus [3] (or Phegeus [11]), or another Oceanid named Argia, called the mother of Phoroneus and Io. [12] Io is sometimes confused as the daughter of Inachus and Melia but she is the daughter of Inachus ...
Phoroneus was the son of the river god Inachus and either Melia, the Oceanid [4] or Argia, [5] the embodiment of the Argolid itself: "Inachus, son of Oceanus, begat Phoroneus [6] by his sister Argia".