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- 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...
- Melissus (1539–1602), humanist Neo-Latin writer, translator and composer Melisseus (or Melissus), father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus...
- 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...
- 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...
- makes the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the nurses of Zeus, daughters of Melisseus, leader of the Kuretes of Crete AethraAetna AmaltheaNurse of Zeus...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...