Melite (mythology)

Melite or Melita (/ˈmɛlɪtiː/; Ancient Greek: Μελίτη Melitê means 'calm, honey sweet' or 'glorious, splendid'^[1]) was the name of several characters in Greek mythology:

• Melita, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.^[2] She was one of the companions of Persephone along with her sisters when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades.^[3]
• Melite or Melie,^[4] the "gracious" Nereid of the calm seas.^[1][5] She was a sea-nymph daughter of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.^[6][7] Melite and her other sisters appear to Thetis when she cries out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles at the slaying of his friend Patroclus.^[8] Later on, together with her sisters 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]