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Melicertes
In Greek mythology, Melicertes (Ancient Greek: Μελικέρτης, sometimes Melecertes, later called Palaemon Παλαίμων) is the son of the Boeotian prince Athamas and Ino, daughter of Cadmus.
Mythology.
Ino, pursued by her husband, who had been driven mad by Hera because Ino had brought up the infant Dionysus, threw herself and Melicertes into the sea from a high rock between Megara and Corinth, Both were changed into marine deities: Ino as Leucothea, noted by Homer, Melicertes as Palaemon. The body
a female monster whose gaze could turn people to stone. See Erinyes.
- Megaera: See Erinyes.
- Meleager: Ancient Greek hero who died when his mother completed the burning of a stick. Purg. XXV, 22.
- Melicertes: See Hera.
- Metellus: Lucius Caecilius Metellus, tribune of the plebs 49 BCE, resisted Julius Caesar when he wanted to plunder the treasury.
- Mentioned in connection with the Tarpeian Rock. Purg. IX, 138.
- Michael: Archangel