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{{Greek myth (aquatic nymphs)}}'''Melite''' or '''Melita''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɛ|l|ᵻ|t|iː}}; [[Social:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]]: Μελίτη ''Melitê'' means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid'<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=230}}</ref>) was the name of several characters in [[Religion:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]]:
* Melita, one of the 3,000 [[Unsolved:Oceanids|Oceanids]], [[Unsolved:Naiad|water-nymph]] daughters of the Titans [[Religion:Oceanus|Oceanus]] and his sister-spouse Tethys.<ref>[[Biography:Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#142 142]</ref> She was one of the companions of [[Religion:Persephone|Persephone]] along with her sisters when the daughter of [[Religion:Demeter|Demeter]] was abducted by [[Religion:Hades|Hades]].<ref>''Homeric Hymn to [[Religion:Demeter|Demeter]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D2 419]</ref>
* Melite or Melie,<ref>Corrected as Melie by Scheffero in Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' Preface</ref> the "gracious" [[Unsolved:Nereids|Nereid]] of the calm seas.<ref name=":0" /><ref>[[Biography:Hesiod|Hesiod]], ''[[Religion:Theogony|Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+240&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130 247]</ref> She was a sea-[[Unsolved:Nymph|nymph]] daughter of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid [[Unsolved:Doris (Oceanid)|Doris]].<ref>[[Biography:Homer|Homer]], ''[[Religion:Iliad|Iliad]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+18.38&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134 18.42]; Apollodorus [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.2.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 1.2.7ff]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Kerényi|first=Carl|title=The Gods of the Greeks|publisher=Thames and Hudson|year=1951|location=London|pages=64}}</ref> Melite and her other sisters appear to [[Unsolved:Thetis|Thetis]] when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.<ref name="Hom">Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D18%3Acard%3D22 18.39-51]</ref> Later on, together with her sisters [[Unsolved:Thalia (Nereid)|Thaleia]], [[Unsolved:Spio|Speio]], [[Unsolved:Cymodoce (mythology)|Cymodoce]], [[Unsolved:Nesaea|Nesaea]], [[Unsolved:Panopea|Panopea]] and Thetis, they were able to help the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 5.826</ref>
*[[Unsolved:Melite (naiad)|Melite]], [[Unsolved:Naiad|naiad]] daughter of the river god Aegaeus and mother of Hyllus by [[Religion:Heracles|Heracles]].<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, [https://topostext.org/work/126#4.522 4.538ff]</ref>
* Melite, one of the Erasinides, four naiad daughters of the Argive river-god Erasinus. Together with her sisters, [[Unsolved:Anchiroe (mythology)|Anchiroe]], Byze and [[Unsolved:Maera (mythology)|Maera]], they became the followers of [[Unsolved:Britomartis|Britomartis]].<ref>Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#40 40]</ref>
*Melite, an Egyptian princess as the daughter of King Busiris and possible sister of Amphidamas. She was the mother of Metus by [[Religion:Poseidon|Poseidon]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157]</ref>
* Melite or Meta, daughter of Hoples and the first wife of Aegeus.<ref>''RE'', [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Melite_6 s.v. Melite 6]; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%203.15.6&lang=original 3.15.6.]; Scholia on Euripides' ''Medea'' 668.</ref>
*Melite, eponym of a deme in [[Place:Attica|Attica]].<ref>Harpocration s.v. ''Melite'' (= Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller ''Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum'', 1. 396, frg. 74), Photius, ''Lexicon'' s.v. ''Melite''; Suida, s.v. ''Melite'', with references to [[Biography:Hesiod|Hesiod]] and Musaeus</ref>
* Melite, one of the sacrificial victims of the Minotaur, and the daughter of Thriagonos.<ref>''RE'', [https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Thriagonos s.v. Thriagonos]; Servius, ''Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid'' 6.21.</ref>

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== References ==

* Antoninus Liberalis, ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
* Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Biography:Gaius Julius Hyginus|Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Biography:Hesiod|Hesiod]], ''Theogony'' from ''The Homeric Hymns and Homerica'' with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Biography:Homer|Homer]], [[Religion:Iliad|''The Iliad'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* ''The Homeric Hymns and Homerica'' with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0138%3Ahymn%3D2 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0137 Greek text available from the same website].
*Kerényi, Carl, ''The Gods of the Greeks'', Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
*Maurus Servius Honoratus, ''In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii;'' recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0053 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].



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