Melissa

That is, the soother or propitiator (from μελισσω or μειλίσσω), a surname of Artemis as the goddess of the moon, in which capacity she alleviates the suffering of women in childbed.

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References

Sources

  • Porphyry. On the Cave of the Nymphs, p. 261.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

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