Pausanias' Description of Greece

Melobosis

First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 30

In Book 4, Chapter 30, Melobosis is named among the daughters of Oceanus who played with Proserpine, the daughter of Demeter. In the meadow, she is with her sisters Leucippe, Phæno, Electra (daughter of Oceanus), Ianthe, Fortune, and Ocyroe: “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”

Relationship record

Book 4 · Chapter 30

  • parent: Oceanus “enumerating the other daughters of Oceanus, how they played with Demeter’s daughter Proserpine, and among them Fortune”
  • siblings with Leucippe “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Phæno “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Electra (daughter of Oceanus) “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Ianthe “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Fortune “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • siblings with Ocyroe “We all were in the pleasant meadow, Leucippe, Phæno, Electra, and Ianthe, Melobosis, and Fortune, and Ocyroe of the beautiful eyes.”
  • friends with Proserpine “how they played with Demeter’s daughter Proserpine”

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