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Meliboia
Meliboia
Meliboea
Sweet-Cow, Fine-
Cattle (meli, bous) |
Meliboih
Meliboiê
Meliboea
Sweet-Cow,
Fine- Cattle |
MELIBOIA (or Meliboea) was an Okeanid Nymph of the region of Mounts Kyllene in Arkadia. She was the wife of King Pelasgos, the eponymous first king of the aboriginal Pelasgian tribes of Arkadia.
Her name means something like "sweet cow", women often being compared favourably with cows in ancient Greece. Meliboia was perhaps the same as Kyllene, the wife of Lykaon in other sources.
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| OKEANOS (Apollodorus 3.96) |
| OFFSPRING |
| LYKAON (by Pelasgos) (Apollodorus 3.96) |
ENCYCLOPEDIA
MELIBOEA (Meliboia.) A daughter of Oceanus, and, by Pelasgus, the mother of Lycaon. (Apollod. iii. 8. § I.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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"Pelasgos and Okeanos' daughter Meliboia, or, according to others, a Nymphe named Kyllene, had a son Lykaon (Wolf), who ruled over the Arkadians." - Apollodorus, The Library 3.96
Sources:
- Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd BC
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