Melite or Melita (/ˈmɛlɪt/; Ancient Greek: Μελίτη Melitê means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid'[1]) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:

Notes

  1. 1 2 Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 230. ISBN 9780786471119.
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae 142
  3. Homeric Hymn to Demeter 419
  4. Corrected as Melie by Scheffero in Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  5. Hesiod, Theogony 247
  6. Homer, Iliad 18.42; Apollodorus 1.2.7ff
  7. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 64.
  8. Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
  9. Virgil, Aeneid 5.826
  10. Apollonius Rhodius, 4.538ff
  11. Antoninus Liberalis, 40
  12. Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  13. RE, s.v. Melite 6; Apollodorus, 3.15.6.; Scholia on Euripides' Medea 668.
  14. 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 Hesiod and Musaeus
  15. RE, s.v. Thriagonos; Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.21.

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