- In Gr**** mythology,
Melisseus (Ancient Gr****: Μελισσεύς
means 'bee-man' or 'honey-man'), the
father of the
nymphs Adrasteia, Ida and
Althaea who were...
- (the
daughter of Oce****, Helios, Haemonius, or—according to Lactantius—
Melisseus), who
brought him up on the milk of her goat. The
possession of multiple...
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probably ****ociated with Cybele, was
later a
Cretan nymph, and
daughter of
Melisseus, who was
charged by Rhea with
nurturing the
infant Zeus in secret, to...
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perhaps reflecting Minoan culture,
making her the
daughter of a
Cretan king
Melisseus,
whose -issos
ending is Pre-Gr****,
Melissa was a
nymph who discovered...
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makes the
nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the
nurses of Zeus,
daughters of
Melisseus,
leader of the
Kuretes of
Crete Aethra ✓
Aetna Amalthea ✓
Nurse of Zeus...
- cave in Dicte,
gives him to the
nymphs Adrasteia and Ida,
daughters of
Melisseus, to nurse. They feed him on the milk of the she-goat Amalthea,
while the...
- Rhea gave the
infant Zeus to the
nymphs Adrasteia and Ida,
daughters of
Melisseus, to nurse, and they fed Zeus on the milk of the goat Amalthea. According...
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Demeter were also
called "Melissae", and
Melissa was a name of Artemis.
Melisseus was the god of
honey and bees,
whose daughters Ida and
Adrasteia fed the...
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Melissus (1539–1602),
humanist Neo-Latin writer,
translator and
composer Melisseus (or Melissus),
father of the
nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the
nurses of Zeus...
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According to
other traditions mentioned by Hyginus, Aega was a
daughter of
Melisseus, king of Crete, and was
chosen to
suckle the
infant Zeus; but as she was...
