Meles
Μέλης
(Μέλης), an Athenian, who was beloved by Timagoras, but refused to listen to him, and ordered him to leap from the rock of the acropolis. Timagoras, who was only a metoikos at Athens, did as he was bid; but Meles, repenting of his cruel command, likewise threw himself from the rock; and the Athenians from that time are said to have worshipped Anteros, as the avenger of Timagoras. (Paus. 1.30.1.)
Meles is also the god of the river Meles, near Smyrna; and this river-god was believed by some to have been the father of Homer. (Vit. Script. Graec. p. 27, ed. Westermann.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.