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Polymela

Πολυμήλη

(Πολυμήλη).

1. A daughter of Peleus, and the wife of Menoetius, by whom she became the mother of Patroclus. (Apollod. 3.13.8.) In some traditions she is called Philomela. [PATROCLUS.]

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.