Biology:Milye

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Short description: In Greek mythology: local eponymous heroine

In Greek mythology, Milye (Ancient Greek: Μιλύης) was a local eponymous heroine and sister of Solymus, thus possible daughter of Zeus and Chaldene[1] or Calchedonia.[2] Her first husband was her own brother and later on of Cragus,[3] son of Tremilus and the nymph Praxidice.[4]

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Pisidia
  2. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.200
  3. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Milyai
  4. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Tremilē (quoting a poem by Panyassis)

References

  • Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.