Melia
Μελία
(Μελία), a nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, became by Inachus the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Pegeus. (Apollod. 2.1.1; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 920.) By Seilenus she became the mother of the centaur, Pholus (Apollod. 2.5.4), and by Poseidon of Amycus. (Apollon. 2.4; Serv. ad Aen. 5.373.) She was carried off by Apollo, and became by him the mother of Ismenius (some call her own brother Ismenus, Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. 11.5; Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1211), and of the seer Tenerus. She was worshipped in the Apollinian sanctuary, the Ismenium, near Thebes. (Paus. 9.10.5, 26.1; Strab. p. 413. )
In the plural form Μελιαι or Μειάδες is the name of the nymphs, who, along with the Gigantes and Erinnyes, sprang from the drops of blood that fell from Uranus, and which were received by Gaea. (Hes. Th. 187.) The nymphs that nursed Zeus are likewise called Meliae. (Callim. Hymn. in Joy. 47; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1963.)
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.