Melite (mythology)
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Melite or Melita (/ˈmɛlɪtiː/; Ancient Greek: Μελίτη Melitê means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid'[1]) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:
- Melita, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[2] She was one of the companions of Persephone along with her sisters when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades.[3]
- Melite or Melie,[4] the "gracious" Nereid of the calm seas.[1][5] She was a sea-nymph daughter of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[6][7] Melite and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.[8] Later on, together with her sisters Thaleia, Speio, Cymodoce, Nesaea, Panopea and Thetis, they were able to help the hero Aeneas and his crew during a storm.[9]
- Melite, naiad daughter of the river god Aegaeus and mother of Hyllus by Heracles.[10]
- Melite, one of the Erasinides, four naiad daughters of the Argive river-god Erasinus. Together with her sisters, Anchiroe, Byze and Maera, they became the followers of Britomartis.[11]
- Melite, an Egyptian princess as the daughter of King Busiris and possible sister of Amphidamas. She was the mother of Metus by Poseidon.[12]
- Melite or Meta, daughter of Hoples and the first wife of Aegeus.[13]
- Melite, eponym of a deme in Attica.[14]
- Melite, one of the sacrificial victims of the Minotaur, and the daughter of Thriagonos.[15]
