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

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  1. ^ a b Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 230. ISBN 9780786471119.
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 142
  3. ^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter 419
  4. ^ Corrected as Melie by Scheffero in Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  5. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 247
  6. ^ Homer, Iliad 18.42; Apollodorus 1.2.7ff
  7. ^ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 64.
  8. ^ Homer, Iliad 18.39-51
  9. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 5.826
  10. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, 4.538ff
  11. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 40
  12. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  13. ^ RE, s.v. Melite 6; Apollodorus, 3.15.6.; Scholia on Euripides' Medea 668.
  14. ^ Harpocration s.v. Melite (= Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, 1. 396, frg. 74), Photius, Lexicon s.v. Melite; Suida, s.v. Melite, with references to Hesiod and Musaeus
  15. ^ RE, s.v. Thriagonos; Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.21.

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