| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Megisto" | Greek | Another form for Callisto, the mother of Areas, who is also called Thernisto. Greek |
| Goddess name "Meiboia" | Greek | Goddess of bees Greek |
| Goddess name "Meilichia" | Greek | An underworld goddess |
| God name "Meilichius" | Greek | I. e. the god that can be propitiated, or the gracious, is used as a surname of several divinities. 1. Of Zeus, as the protector of those who honoured him with propitiatory sacrifices. At Athens cakes were offered to him every year at the festival of the Diasia. |
"Melampus" | Greek | A son of Amythaon by Eidomene, or according to others, by Aglaia or Hhodope and a brother of Bias. He was looked upon by the ancients as the first mortal that had been endowed with prophetic powers, as the person that first practised the medical art, and established the worship of Dionysus in Greece. Greek |
| King name "Melaneus" | Greek | A son of Apollo, and king of the Dryopes, He was the father of Eurytus and a famous archer. According to a Messenian legend Melaneus came to Perieres who åśśigned to him a town as his habitation which he called Oechalia, after his wife's name. Greek |
"Melanippe" | Greek | A daughter of Cheiron, is also called Euippe. Being with child by Aeolus, she fled to mount Pelion but Cheiron made search after her and in order that her condition might not become known, she prayed to be metamorphosed into a mare. Artemis granted the prayer, and in the form of a horse she was placed among the stars. Greek |
| Angel name "Melas" | Greek | A son of Poseidon by a nymph of Chios, and brother of angelus. |
"Melas" | Greek | A son of Phrixus and Chalciope, was married to Eurycleia, by whom he became the father of Hyperes. |
"Meleager" | Greek | A son of Oeneus and Althaea, the daughter of Thestius, and was married to Cleopatra, by whom he became the father of Polydora. Greek |
| Nymph name "Melia" | Greek | A nymph, a daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, became by Inachus the mother of Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Pegeus. (Apollodorus. ii) By Seilenus she became the mother of the centaur, Pholus (Apollodorus. ii), and by Poseidon of Amycus. Greek |
"Meliboea" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and, by Pelasgus, the mother of Lycaon. 2. A daughter of Magnes, who called the town of Meliboea, in Magnesia, after her. 3. One of the daughters of Niobe. Greek |
| Goddess name "Melicertes" | Greek | Son of Ino, a sea deity. Athamas imagined his wife to be a lioness, and her two sons to be lion's cubs. In his frenzy he slew one of the boys, and drove the other, Melicertes, with his mother into the sea. The mother became a sea-goddess, and the boy the god of harbours. greek |
| Goddess name "Melinoe" | Greek | Or Chthonia, may mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, but especially of Demeter. Greek |
| King name "Melissus" | Greek | An ancient king of Crete, who, by Amalthea, became the father of the nymphs Adrastea and Ida, to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be brought up. Other accounts call the daughters of this king Melissa and Amalthea. Greek |
| Nymph name "Melobosis" | Greek | A nymph, said to have been a daughter of Oceåñuś. Greek |
| Goddess name "Melpomene" | Greek | The singing goddess, one of the nine Muses, became afterwards the Muse of Tragedy. Greek |
"Melpomenus" | Greek | The singer, was a surname of Dionysus at Athens, and in the Attic demos of Acharne. Greek |
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