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MELIA ARGEIA

Greek Mythology >> Nymphs >> Oceanids >> Melia Argia (Argeia)

Greek Name

Μελια Μελιη

Transliteration

Melia, Meliê

Translation

Sweet, Honey (meli)

MELIA ARGEIA was the Okeanid-nymph ancestress of the royal houses of Argos, Sikyon (Sicyon) and Thebes. She was the wife of the river-god Inakhos (Inachus) and the mother of Phoroneus, first king of Argos, Aigieleus (Aegialeus), first king of Sikyon, and the nymph Io. Their descendants, through Io, resettled Greece after the Great Deluge--with Danaus founding the city of Argos in the Peloponnese and Kadmos (Cadmus) the city of Thebes in Boiotia.

Melia was perhaps identified with Melia, the nymph of the Ismenian spring of Thebes loved by Apollon, and Ismene, the eponymous nymph of the Ismenian spring.

PARENTS

[1.1] OKEANOS(Apollodorus 2.1, Hyginus Fab 143)

OFFSPRING

[1.1] PHORONEUS, AIGIALEUS (by Inakhos) (Apollodorus 2.1)
[1.2] PHORONEUS, IO (by Inakhos) (Hyginus Fabulae 143 & 145)

ENCYCLOPEDIA

ME′LIA (Melia),

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Me'lia

（*Meli/a), a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, became by Inachus the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Pegeus. (Apollod. 2.1.1; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest.920.) By Seilenus she became the mother of the centaur, Pholus (Apollod. 2.5.4), and by Poseidon of Amycus. (Apollon. 2.4; Serv. ad Aen. 5.373.) She was carried off by Apollo, and became by him the mother of Ismenius (some call her own brother Ismenus, Schol. ad Pind. Pyth.11.5; Tzetz. ad Lyc.1211), and of the seer Tenerus. She was worshipped in the Apollinian sanctuary, the Ismenium, near Thebes. (Paus. 9.10.5, 26.1; Strab. p. 413. )In the plural form Μελιαιor Μειάδεςis the name of the nymphs, who, along with the Gigantes and Erinnyes, sprang from the drops of blood that fell from Uranus, and which were received by Gaea. (Hes. Th. 187.) The nymphs that nursed Zeus are likewise called Meliae. (Callim. Hymn. in Joy.47; Eustath. ad Horn.p. 1963.) [L.S]

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MELIA

Greek Mythology >> Nymphs >> Oceanids >> Melia

Greek Name

Μελια Μελιη

Transliteration

Melia, Meliê

Translation

Sweet, Honey (meli)

MELIA was the Okeanid-nymph of the Ismenian spring of Thebes in Boiotia (central Greece). She was loved by the god Apollon who slew her brother Kaanthos (Caanthus) in the contest for her love. She bore the god two sons, Ismenos and Teneros--prophetic priests of the oracular Ismenion shrine.

Melia as the Naiad-nymph of the Ismenian spring occurs in two alternate traditions as Melia and Ismene, ancestresses of Kadmos (Cadmus), the hero-founder of Thebes.

PARENTS

[1.1] OKEANOS(Pindar Paean 1, Pausanias 9.10.5)

OFFSPRING

[1.1] TENEROS (by Apollon) (Pindar Paean 1, Strabo 9.2.34)
[1.2] ISMENOS, TENEROS (by Apollon) (Pausanias 9.10.5, 9.26.1)

ENCYCLOPEDIA

ME′LIA (Melia), a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus. She was carried off by Apollo, and became by him the mother of Ismenius (some call her own brother Ismenus, Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. xi. 5; T