Melia

A nymph who was carried off by Apollo, and became by him the mother of Ismenius (some1 call her own brother Ismenus), and of the seer Tenerus. She was worshiped in the Apollinian sanctuary, the Ismenium, near Thebes.

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References

Notes

  1. Scholiast on Pindar's Pythian Odes xii, 5; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1211

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 10.5, 26.1.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography, p. 413.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.