Melite

Role: water nymph · First appears: Book IV 5

Life events

• Melite bore Hyllus to Heracles.(Book IV 5 · 📍 land of the Phaeacians)
  • With: Heracles Hyllus
  • “For he came to the abode of Nausithous and to Macris, the nurse of Dionysus, to cleanse himself from the deadly murder of his children; here he loved and overcame the water nymph Melite, the daughter of the river Aegaeus, and she bare mighty Hyllus.”

Book IV 5

• child: Hyllus “whom fair Melite bare to Heracles in the land of the Phaeacians”
• parent: Aegaeus “the water nymph Melite, the daughter of the river Aegaeus”
• with Heracles (They were lovers.) “here he loved and overcame the water nymph Melite”
• courtship with Heracles “here he loved and overcame the water nymph Melite, the daughter of the river Aegaeus, and she bare mighty Hyllus.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.