place
Meles
also: Μέλης
A river near Smyrna where Artemis is imagined watering her horses in Hymn 9; later legend made it the river beside which Homer himself was born.
Reading notes
- The Epigrams of Homer §4 Meles
A river at Smyrna; later legend made it the river beside which the poet was born, giving him the byname Melesigenes.
- The Homeric Hymns §9.1 Meles
A river near Smyrna where Artemis is imagined watering her horses in Hymn 9; later legend made it the river beside which Homer himself was born.