Melpeia
Μέλπεια
Melpeia (Μέλπεια), a village in Arcadia, situated upon Mt. Nomia, which is a portion of Mount Lycaeus, so called because Pan was said to have here discovered the melody (μέλος) of the syrinx. (Paus. 8.38.11.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.