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Melia (consort of Poseidon)

Sources

Ancient

Ovid

Amores

3.6.25–26

The Inachus, they say, went pale for Bithynian Melie, and his chill waves felt love’s warmth.

Apollodorus

1.9.20

From Mysia they [the Argonauts] departed to the land of the Bebryces, which was ruled by King Amycus, son of Poseidon and a Bithynian nymph.¹

¹ As to the visit of the Argonauts to the Bebryces, and the boxing match of Pollux with Amycus, see Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.1ff.; Theocritus xxii.27ff.; Orphica, Argonautica 661ff.; Valerius Flaccus, Argon. iv.99ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 17; Lactantius Placidus on Statius, Theb. iii.353; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 31, 123 (First Vatican Mythographer 93; Second Vatican Mythographer 140). The name of the Bithynian nymph, mother of Amycus, was Melie （Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.4; Hyginus, Fab. 17; Serv. Verg. A. 5.373）.

2.5.9

King Mygdon, brother of Amycus

Hyginus

Fabulae

17 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 105)

Amycus

Amycus was the son of Neptune and Melia and was the king of Berycia.

Apollonius of Rhodes

Argonautica 2.1–4 (pp. 102, 103)

Here were the oxstalls and farm of Amycus, the haughty king of the Bebrycians, whom once a nymph, Bithynian Melie, united to Poseidon Genethlius, bare—the most arrogant of men.

Race, p. 115

Here were located the ox stables and sheepfold of Amycus, the haughty king of the Bebrycians, whom the nymph, Bithynian Melie, having made love to Poseidon Genethlius,¹ once bore—the most arrogant of men,

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Argonautica

4.118–119

[Poseidon:] “Melie, ’tis pity thou wast long ago carried off by me beneath the waves, and didst not rather yield to the Thunderer!

[See Murgatroyd p. 87]

Servius

Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil

5.373

[373] amyci de gente Amycus filius Neptuni fuit et nymphae Melies, qui a Polluce victus est pyctali certamine. Bebrycia autem ipsa est Bithynia: Sallustius “igitur introrsus prima Asiae Bithynia est, multis antea nominibus appellata” : ipsa enim est et maior Phrygia.

Modern

Fowler

p. 220

Amykos, kingf of the Berbrykes, son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melie (Ap. Rhod. 2.2-4),

Frazer

Note 43 to Ap. 1.9

43 As to the visit of the Argonauts to the Bebryces, and the boxing match of Pollux with Amycus, see Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.1ff.; Theocritus xxii.27ff.; Orphica, Argonautica 661ff.; Valerius Flaccus, Argon. iv.99ff.; Hyginus, Fab. 17; Lactantius Placidus on Statius, Theb. iii.353; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 31, 123 (First Vatican Mythographer 93; Second Vatican Mythographer 140). The name of the Bithynian nymph, mother of Amycus, was Melie （Ap. Rhod., Argon. ii.4; Hyginus, Fab. 17; Serv. Verg. A. 5.373）.

Hard

p. 386

AMYKOS, a son of Poseidon by the Bithynian nymph Melia,

Larson

p. 196

Amykos, the king of the Bebrykes, is (like Astakos) the son of Poseidon and a Bithynian nymph;

Murgatroyd

p. 87

Parada

p. 115

Melie

Μελίη

A bithynian nymph.

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••Poseidon.

•••Amycus 1, Mygdon.

NYMPHS.

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Smith

s.v. Amycus

1. A son of Poseidon by Bithynis, or by the Bithynian nymph Melia. He was ruler of the country of the Bebryces, and when the Argonauts landed on the coast of his dominions, he challenged the bravest of them to a boxing match. Polydeuces, who accepted the challenge, killed him. (Apollod. 1.9.20; Hyg. Fab. 17; Apollon. Rhod. ii. init.) The Scholiast on Apollonius (2.98) relates, that Polydences bound Amycus. Previous to this fatal encounter with the Argonauts, Amycus had had a feud with Lycus, king of Mysia, who was supported by Heracles, and in it Mydon, the brother of Amycus, fell by the hands of Heracles. (Apollod. 2.5.9 ; Apollon. 2.754.) Pliny (Plin. Nat. 16.89) relates, that upon the tomb of Amycus there grew a species of laurel (laurus insana), which had the effect that, when a branch of it was taken on board a vessel, the crew began to quarrel, and did not cease until the branch was thrown overboard. Three other mythical personages of this name occur in Ov. Met. 12.245; Verg. A. 10.705, compared with Hom. Il. 6.289; Verg. A. 12.509, compared with 5.297.

s.v. Mygdon

1. A brother of Amycus, king of the Bebryces, was slain by Heracles, who assisted Lycus in his war with Mygdon. (Apollod. 2.5.9.)