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 Divinities of Waters & Landscapes, Greek Mythology Link.
Melicertes was son of Athamas 1 and Ino.
She married Athamas 1 and had by him two sons: Learchus and Melicertes [see Athamas 1].
Zeus, after having given birth to Dionysus 2 (whom he had kept in his thigh), entrusted him to Hermes, who conveyed the little god to Ino and Athamas 1, persuading them to rear him as a girl.
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 Ino, Athamas, and Phrixus
Melicertes was called the god Palaemon, we call him Portunus.
When the king learned of this scheme, he handed over his wife Ino and her son Melicertes to Phrixus to be killed.
And he married a second wife, Ino, by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes.
http://www3.baylor.edu/~John_Thorburn/InoAthamasPhrixus.html   (580 words)

  
 Athamas 1, Greek Mythology Link.
And the goddess, having witnessed the end of Ino and her child Melicertes, asked Poseidon to receive them as sea-deities and he, consenting to her prayer, took away from Ino and her son their mortal parts.
Still others assert that it was Athamas 1 who laid Melicertes in the cauldron.
It is said that Dionysus 2 then protected them, casting mist around his nurse Ino.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/cparada/GML/Athamas1.html   (1780 words)

  
 Ino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Both were afterwards worshipped as marine divinities, Ino as Leucothea ("the white goddess"), Melicertes as Palaemon.
Later, Ino raised Dionysus, her nephew, son of her sister Semele, causing Hera's intense jealousy.
Ino was a mortal queen in Greek mythology, second wife of Athamus and mother of Learches and Melicertes, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and stepmother of Phrixus and Helle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ino   (429 words)

  
 Melicertes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melicertes (later called Palaemon), in Greek mythology, the son of the Boeotian prince Athamas and Ino, daughter of Cadmus.
Melicertes being Phoenician, Palaemon also has been explained as the ?burning lord?
He is a native of Boeotia, where Phoenician influences were strong; at Tenedos he was propitiated by the sacrifice of children which seems to point to his identity with Melqart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melicertes   (403 words)

  
 Ino
Zeus, not wanting Ino's ghost to go to Tartus for she did raise his son Dionysus, turned Ino into the sea deity, Leucotha (white goddess) and Melicertes into Palaemon.
Ino, like any frightened mother, took her other son, Melicertes and fled the castle.
Ino secretly bribed the messenger to come back with the message that Athamas must sacrifice his son by Nephele, Phrixes.
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/i/ino.html   (569 words)

  
 Chapter Leontes <i>to</i> Levites of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook
Leucothea, onc e called “Ino.” Athamas son of Ælus had by her two sons, one of whom was named Melicertês.
Athamas being driven mad, Ino and Melicertês threw themselves into the sea; Ino became Leucothea, and Melicertês became Palæmon or Portumnus the god of ports or strands.
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/174/1122/14800/3.html   (236 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: PALAEMON / PALAIMON the Sea God ( also Melikertes Melicertes Portunus )
"Ino with the younger [son of her and Athamas], Melicertes, cast herself into the sea and was made a goddess." - Hyginus, Fabulae 4
"Ino, daughter of Cadmus, killed her son Melicertes by Athamas, son of Aeolus, when she was fleeing from Athamas." - Hyginus, Fabulae 239
Greek Mythology: PALAEMON / PALAIMON the Sea God (also Melikertes Melicertes Portunus)
http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Palaimon.html   (2736 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Melicertes (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
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Mother and son became marine divinities, she as the nereida Leucotea and he as the god Palemon.
Ino was priestess of the goddess and rejected the new Zeus-Ram that Atamas had managed to impose in mount Lafistio.
Later on, joined to Ino, daughter of Cadmo, he had Learco and Melicertes.
http://www.freewebs.com/jjlopezjj/filesDOC/LosDioses/TheArgonauts.doc   (3425 words)

  
 Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Tales of Aries and Argo. Chapter 1: Phrixus and Helle and the Golden Ram
The frightened Ino ran away with Melicertes, her only remaining son.
That night Ino, disguised as the nurse, dressed her sons in white and Themisto's sons in black.
First, King Athamas married Nephele, a goddess of the clouds, and they had a son named Phrixus and a daughter named Helle.
http://www.business-esolutions.com/starmyths/myths/jason1.htm   (1205 words)

  
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Melicertes was the son of Athamas and Ino.
The deified form of Melicertes after his death.
This may originally have been merely an epithet of Apollo, however he did emerge as an independent deity in later Greek literature.
http://religion.mrugala.net/Grece/Anglais/Greekr.htm   (1661 words)

  
 Hawaiian Astronomical Society -- Aries
Melicertes may be linked with the Phoenician god Melqart (the Canaanite Baal of Tyre, sometimes called Baal Amon), which brings us to the second tradition.
Baal Amon (or Hammon) is derived from the Egyptian god Amon.
Melicertes' body was carried by dolphins to his uncle Sisyphus of Corinth, who founded the Isthmian games in his honor.
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/ari   (662 words)

  
 Moonmilk: URTH archives v15 0070
Melicertes was thrown into the water as a boy, and either drowned or was saved by a dolphin, but either way was then made a sea god.
Also, Melicertes means beekeeper, any relation to the Honey Steward who became Autarch?
Well, the original Palaemon in mythology was the name of two characters: the first name of Hercules and the second name of Melicertes.
http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0015/0070.shtml   (259 words)

  
 ATHAMAS - LoveToKnow Article on ATHAMAS
Both were afterwards worshipped as marine d ivinities, mo as Leucothea, Melicertes as Palaemon (Odyssey t 333).
Athamas, with the guilt of his sons murder upon him, h as obliged to flee from Boeotia.
Athamas went mad, u nd slew one of his sons, Learchus; mo, to escape the pursuit of 0
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AT/ATHAMAS.htm   (691 words)

  
 Palaemon palaimon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Palaemon palaimon
Palaemon palaimon (Greek) The wrestler; applied to Herakles and Melicertes, a name of Phoenician origin, taken from the Phoenician divinity Melcart.
Ino, daughter of Cadmus and wife of Athamas, flying from her husband, sprang with her child Melicertes into the sea; the gods out of compassion made her a sea goddess and her son a god under the name of Palaemon.
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Palaemon_palaimon/id/135404   (517 words)

  
 dionysus
Dionysus was now handed over to the nymphs of Mount Nysa (variously located), whence he derived his name, where he was worshipped, and where he introduced the cultivation of the vine.
This he did and she was consumed by his lightning; but he rescued her unborn child from the ashes and placed him in his thigh, from which in due time he was born.
The child was entrusted to Ino, sister of Semele and wife of Athamas, but Hera, still jealous, punished them by driving them mad, so that Athamas killed his son Learchos and Ino leaped into the sca with her other son Melicertes.
http://www.wsu.edu/~hughesc/dionysus.htm   (664 words)

  
 Pausanias on Ino
The Molurian dock they thought sacred to Leucothea and Palaemon; but those after it they consider accursed, in that Sciron, who dwelt by them, used to cast into the sea all the strangers he met.
As to the Molurian, it is said that from it Ino flung her self into the sea with Melicertes, the younger of her children.
Learchus, the elder of them, had been killed by his father.
http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/medea_lecture/pausanias1.htm   (217 words)

  
 Bragging???
Also here: Lord Redem, Apprentice Kilaras, Lord Lerrin, Dravnum, Silon, Melicertes, the body of Vrairdrick who is lying down, Sharanna, Kristofer, Lord Yebon who is sitting, Vermalvan, Marthaen who is kneeling.
Also here: Lord Yebon, the body of Silon who is lying down, Lord Redem, Weaponblend, Lady Michalie, the body of Lord Lerrin who is lying down, Apprentice Kilaras, Lord Cles, Dravnum, Melicertes, the body of Vrairdrick who is lying down, the body of Sharanna who is lying down, Kristofer, Vermalvan, Marthaen who is kneeling.
You also see the Yebon disk and a carved ice bench with some stuff on it.
http://carabele.com/Thur_in5101/bragging.htm   (1776 words)

  
 Sources
Phrixus, son of, and Helle, daughter of Athamas, son of Aeolus, by Nephele, Learchus and Melicertes, children of Athamas by his second wife, Ino;
Melicertes, son of Athamas by Ino, became a sea-god named Palaemon after his mother Ino jumped into the ocean with him.
Ino is called Leucothoe, Melicertes is called Palaemon by sailors.
http://www.csulb.edu/~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i236Sources.htm   (55 words)

  
 Ino - Acadine Archive
She was made a sea-goddess by Zeus, under the name of Leucothea; and her son was changed into a god, afterwards to be named Palaemon.
She fled from her maddened husband, and with her little son, Melicertes, sprang from a cliff into the sea.
http://www.acadine.org/w/Ino   (96 words)

  
 Ino
Ino was transformed into the goddess Leucothea, and Melicertes became the god Palaemon; as divinities, they bring help to sailors who are beset by storms.
She also had two children of her own by Athamus, Learchus and Melicertes.
Ino then leaped into the sea with Melicertes' body clasped in her arms.
http://home.swipnet.se/heathen/mythology/i/ino.html   (132 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Athamas (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
He married Nephele, who bore him Phrixus and Helle, but he later fell in love with Ino, who bore him Learchus and Melicertes.
According to one legend, Athamas went mad, killed Learchus and forced Ino, who was fleeing with Melicertes, to leap to her death in the sea.
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/A/Athamas.html   (170 words)

  
 Leucothea --  Encyclopædia Britannica
She was customarily identified with Ino, daughter of the Phoenician Cadmus; because she cared for the infant god Dionysus, the goddess Hera drove Ino (or her husband, Athamas) mad so that she and her son, Melicertes, …
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9047942?tocId=9047942   (272 words)

  
 Ino. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Later, when Athamas went mad and killed Learchus, Ino and Melicertes leaped into the sea to their deaths and were changed into sea deities, Leucothea and Palaemon.
She was the wife of Athamas, to whom she bore Learchus and Melicertes.
She plotted to kill her stepchildren, Phrixus and Helle, but their mother, Nephele, saved them with the help of a winged ram (see Golden Fleece).
http://www.bonus.com/contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/65/in/Ino.html   (119 words)

  
 Athamas - Acadine Archive
Athamas after the murder of his son fled to Thessaly.
In this state he slew his son Learchus, and in despair at this act Ino threw herself into the sea with her other child, Melicertes, who with her mother became a sea-goddess, Ino becoming Leucothea, and Melicertes Palaemon.
He, however, intrigued with Ino, and for this was punished with madness by the goddess and his infuri­ated spouse.
http://www.acadine.org/w/Athamas   (128 words)

  
 ino
Ino stands reaching heavenward with Melicertes beside her.
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/mythmoore/imagesfiles10/ino.html   (8 words)

  
 Apollodorus on Ino
But Zeus eluded the wrath of Hera by turning Dionysus into a kid, and Hermes took him and brought him to the nymphs who dwelt at Nysa in Asia, whom Zeus afterwards changed into stars and named them the Hyades.
I.9.2 But afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera; for he went mad and shot Learchus with an arrow, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into the sea.
But Hera indignantly drove them mad, and Athamas hunted his elder son Learchus as a deer and killed him, and Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron, then carrying it with the dead child she sprang into the deep.
http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/public_html/public_html/medea_lecture/apollodorus2.htm   (352 words)

  
 Melicertes
In memory of this event and in honor of the god, Sisyphus made the Isthmian Games.
The legend of Melicertes is presented in the sources with many variations due to being passed down to one generation after another
Article created on 10 May 1998; last modified on 31 July 2001.
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/melicertes.html   (106 words)

  
 Who was Who in Roman Times: Data on Persons: Melicertes
Who was Who in Roman Times: Data on Persons: Melicertes
http://www.romansonline.com/Persns.asp?IntID=8977&Ename=Melicertes   (10 words)

  
 MELICERTES - LoveToKnow Article on MELICERTES
mo, pursued by her husband, who had been driven mad by Hera because Inc had brought up the infant Dionysus, threw herself and Meicertes into the sea from a high rock between Megara and Corinth, Both were changed into marine deitiesmo as Leucothea Melicertes as Palaemon.
The body of the latter was carriec by a dolphin to the Isthmus of Corinth and deposited undei a pine tree.
To properly cite this MELICERTES article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/M/ME/MELICERTES.htm   (264 words)

  
 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 388
On this page: Melete – Melicertes – Melinno – Melpomene – Memnon – Menander
http://www.ancientlibrary.com/seyffert/0391.html   (739 words)

  
 Littleowlluna.com - Greek Gods and Goddesses: I
She became a sea goddess under the name
She leapt into the sea with her child, Melicertes.
Later, to punish her for this crime, Hera drove her and her husband Athamas mad.
http://www.stormpages.com/littleowlluna/base2/greekgodsi.html   (70 words)

  
 Statius' Thebaid, Book 6
Soon around the sad altars of Palaemon the somber cult was preserved, as many times as spirited Leucothea resumes her mourning and comes to the friendly shores at festival time: both shores of the Isthmus cry out with mourning
i.e., the Isthmian Games, the first celebration of which, according to legend, was as part of funeral rites for the child Melicertes, who was killed when his mother Ino, driven mad by Hera, jumped into the sea carrying the boy.
In this new status Ino was called Leucothea and Melicertes, Palaemon.
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/statius.htm   (12435 words)

  
 [ python-Bugs-985478 ] bdist_rpm license documented, but not accepted as valid
Both spellings are also rejected as errors if placed in setup.cfg's [bdist_rpm] section: $ /usr/bin/python2.3 setup.py bdist_rpm running bdist_rpm error: error in setup.cfg: command 'bdist_rpm' has no such option 'license' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Charles (melicertes) Date: 2004-08-05 17:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1064824 My error, influenced by imprecise documentation.
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Normally I'd just write my own spec file and use the --spec-file option, but the docs say this isn't implemented yet.
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 [ python-Bugs-985478 ] bdist_rpm license documented, but not accepted as valid Python Bugs
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 A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - letus, Melia, Meliboea, Melicertes, Melissa, ...
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