Melite or Melita (; Ancient Greek : Μελίτη Melitê means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid'[ 1] Greek mythology :
Melita, one of the 3,000 Oceanids , water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys .[ 2] Persephone along with her sisters when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades .[ 3]
Melite or Melie ,[ 4] Nereid of the calm seas.[ 1] [ 5] nymph daughter of the "Old Man of the Sea " Nereus and the Oceanid Doris .[ 6] [ 7] Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus .[ 8] 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]
^ a b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 230. ISBN 9780786471119 ^ Hyginus , Fabulae 142 ^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter 419 ^ Corrected as Melie by Scheffero in Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
^ Hesiod , Theogony 247 ^ Homer , Iliad 18.42 ; Apollodorus 1.2.7ff ^ Kerényi , Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks . London: Thames and Hudson . p. 64.^ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
^ Virgil, Aeneid
^ Apollonius Rhodius , 4.538ff ^ Antoninus Liberalis , 40 ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
^ RE , s.v. Melite 6 ; Apollodorus , 3.15.6. ; Scholia on Euripides ' Medea ^ 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 ^ RE , s.v. Thriagonos ; Servius , Commentary on Virgil 's Aeneid 6.21.