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NaiadeV Mhliai
Naiades Mêliai
Naiads of Melos (island)
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THE NYMPHAI MELIAI were Naiad Nymphs of the island of Melos (in the Greek Aegean). They were transformed into frogs by Zeus as punishment for burying the body of Euphorion, an arrogant boy who tried to fly to heaven.
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| Presumably daughters of a mainland RIVER-GOD |
"There was born of Helene and Akhilleus in the Islands of the Blest a winged child named Euphorion after the fertility of this land; Zeus caught him and with a blow knocked him to earth in the isle of Melos, where he continued the pursuit and changed the Nymphai [Naiades] there into frogs because they had given him burial." - Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk4 (as summarized in Photius, Myriobiblon 190)
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- Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History - Greek Scholar C1st-2nd AD
- Photius, Myriobiblon - Byzantine Greek Scholar C9th AD
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