Milye Explained

In Greek mythology, Milye (Ancient Greek: Μιλύης) was a local eponymous heroine and sister of Solymus, thus possible daughter of Zeus and Chaldene^[1] or Calchedonia.^[2] Her first husband was her own brother and later on Cragus,^[3] son of Tremilus and the nymph Praxidice.^[4]

Notes

1. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
2. [Scholia]
3. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Milyai
4. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Tremilē (quoting a poem by Panyassis)

References

• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.