Melije

Melije
Melije
Grupe	Nimfa
Podgrupe	Drijade
Mitologija	Grčka mitologija
Stanište	na drveću

Melije (starogrčki: Μελίαι ) u grčkoj mitologiji u grčkoj mitologiji, bile su Drijade, nimfe drveta jasena, čije su ime dijelile.^[1]

Mitologija

Prema Hesiodu, Melije (verovatno znači sve nimfe na drvetu) su rođene iz kapi krvi koje su pale na Geju (Zemlju) kada je Kron kastrirao Urana.^[2] U Hesiodovim Djelima i danima, jasen, koji možda znači Melianske nimfe, kaže se da su bili praroditelji generacije ljudi koji su pripadali Hesiodovom bronzanom dobu.^[3]

Melije su bile dojilje malog Zeusa na kritskim planinama Dikti, prema pjesniku Kalimahu iz 3. vijeka p. n. e, Himni Zeusu, gdje su ga hranile mlijekom koze Amalteje i medom.^[4]

Kalimah kaže da je tebanska nimfa Melija, koja je preko Apolona, majka Tenera i Ismenusa, jedna od Melija "rođenih na Zemlji".^[5] Na drugim mjestima, međutim, ova Melija je Okeanida, jedna od mnogih kćeri Okeana i Tetide.^[6] Mitograf Apolodor je napisao da su roditelji kentaura Fola bili Silen i jedna od Melija,^[7] čime se genealoški razlikovao od ostalih kentaura.

Reference

^ Caldwell, p. 38 n. 178–187: "The nymphs called Meliai are properly "ash-tree" nymphs; the Greek word for ash-trees is meliai also", and according to Larson, p. 29: "most commentators agree" that "the Meliai are ash-tree nymphs", although according to West, p. 221 n. 187 Μελίας, in Callimachus, Hymn 4—To Delos 79–85, and Nonnus' Dionysiaca, and probably in Hesiod as well, the Meliae are simply "tree-nymphs, probably without distinction of the particular kind of tree".
^ Hesiod, Theogony 182–187; West, p. 221 n. 187 Μελίας; Hard, p. 209.
^ Hesiod, Works and Days 140–155 (Evelyn-White): "Zeus the Father made a third generation of mortal men, a brazen race, sprung from ash-trees [meliai]", here interpreting meliai as the common noun ash-trees, as did Eustathius. However Proclus thought it meant ash-tree nymphs (see Evelyn-White's note; Larson, p. 29), cf. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1641–1642, which makes it simply "ash-trees". According to Most, p. 19 n. 9, "It is unclear what exactly the relation is between the Melian nymphs, the ash trees with which they are closely associated, and human beings, who may have originated from one or the other of these".
^ Callimachus, Hymn 1—To Zeus 42–50.
^ Callimachus, Hymn 4—To Delos 79–85; Hesiod, Theogony 187; Larson, p. 142.
^ Pindar, Paean 9 fr. 52k 38–46; Pausanias, 9.10.5, 6, 9.26.1; Larson, pp. 40–41, 142.
^ Apollodorus, 2.5.4; Gantz, pp. 139, 392.

Izvori

Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W. Heinemann, 1912. Internet Archive.
Burkert, Walter, 1985. Greek Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod's Theogony, Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company (June 1, 1987). ISBN 978-0-941051-00-2.
Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Hesiod; Works and Days, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360.
Larson, Jennifer, "Greek Nymphs : Myth, Cult, Lore", Oxford University Press (US). June 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-512294-7
Most, G. W., Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia, Loeb Classical Library, No. 57, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006 ISBN 978-0-674-99622-9. Online version at Harvard University Press.
Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pindar, Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments, Edited and translated by William H. Race. Loeb Classical Library No. 485. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-674-99534-5. Online version at Harvard University Press.
West, M. L. (1966), Hesiod: Theogony, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-814169-6.

[1] Caldwell, p. 38 n. 178–187: "The nymphs called Meliai are properly "ash-tree" nymphs; the Greek word for ash-trees is meliai also", and according to Larson, p. 29: "most commentators agree" that "the Meliai are ash-tree nymphs", although according to West, p. 221 n. 187 Μελίας, in Callimachus, Hymn 4—To Delos 79–85, and Nonnus' Dionysiaca, and probably in Hesiod as well, the Meliae are simply "tree-nymphs, probably without distinction of the particular kind of tree".

[2] Hesiod, Theogony 182–187; West, p. 221 n. 187 Μελίας; Hard, p. 209.

[3] Hesiod, Works and Days 140–155 (Evelyn-White): "Zeus the Father made a third generation of mortal men, a brazen race, sprung from ash-trees [meliai]", here interpreting meliai as the common noun ash-trees, as did Eustathius. However Proclus thought it meant ash-tree nymphs (see Evelyn-White's note; Larson, p. 29), cf. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1641–1642, which makes it simply "ash-trees". According to Most, p. 19 n. 9, "It is unclear what exactly the relation is between the Melian nymphs, the ash trees with which they are closely associated, and human beings, who may have originated from one or the other of these".

[4] Callimachus, Hymn 1—To Zeus 42–50.

[5] Callimachus, Hymn 4—To Delos 79–85; Hesiod, Theogony 187; Larson, p. 142.

[6] Pindar, Paean 9 fr. 52k 38–46; Pausanias, 9.10.5, 6, 9.26.1; Larson, pp. 40–41, 142.

[7] Apollodorus, 2.5.4; Gantz, pp. 139, 392.

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