Melia (consort of Poseidon)

This article is about Melia, mother of Amycus. For other mythological characters named Melia, see Melia (mythology).
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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. Bithynis the ash tree nymph.[2]

  1. ^ Parada, s.v. Melie p. 115; Hard, p. 386; Smith, s.v. Amycus, s.v. Mygdon; Hyginus, Fabulae 17; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1–4; Servius, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil 5.373; described only as "a Bithynian nymph" at Apollodorus, 1.9.20 (see Frazer's note).
  2. ^ Cameron, p. 264.