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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In Greek mythology, the Meliae or Melia were nymphs of the ash tree, whose name they shared. They appeared from the drops of blood spilled when Cronus castrated Uranus, according to Hesiod, Theogony 187. From the same blood sprang the Erinyes, suggesting that the ash-tree nymphs represented the Fates in milder guise. From the Meliae sprang the race of mankind of the Age of Bronze. The Meliae belong to a class of sisterhoods whose nature is to appear collectively and who are invoked in the plural, though genealogical myths, especially in Hesiod, give them individual names, such as Melia, "but these are quite clearly secondary and carry no great weight". The Melia thus singled out is one of these daughters of Oceanus. By her brother the river-god Inachus, she became the mother of Io, Phoroneus, Aegialeus or Phegeus, and Nilodice. In other stories, she was the mother of Amycus by Poseidon, as the Olympian representative of Oceanus.
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- PublisherAlphascript Publishing
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 6130774605
- ISBN 13 9786130774608
- BindingTapa blanda
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages108
- EditorMiller Frederic P, Vandome Agnes F, McBrewster John
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