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MELICERTES , in See also:

Greek See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, the son of the Boeotian See also:

prince See also:

ATHAMAS

Athamas and Ino, daughter of See also:

CADMUS

Cadmus. Inc), pursued by her See also:

HUSBAND

husband, who had been driven mad by See also:

HERA

Hera because Ino. had brought up the See also:

INFANT (in early forms enfaunt, enfant, through the Fr. enfant, from Lat. infans, in, not, and fans, the present participle of fari, to speak)

infant See also:

DIONYSUS (probably = " son of Zeus," from & Os and vv(7os, a Thracian word for " son ")

Dionysus, threw herself and Melicertes into the See also:

sea from a high See also:

rock between See also:

MEGARA

Megara and See also:

Corinth. Both were changed into marine deities—Ino as Leucothea, Melicertes as See also:

PALAEMON, QUINTUS REMMIUS

Palaemon. The See also:

BODY

body of the latter was carried by a See also:

DOLPHIN

dolphin to the See also:

ISTHMUS (Gr.io0pbs, neck)

Isthmus of Corinth and deposited under a See also:

PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine See also:

tree. Here it was found by his See also:

UNCLE

uncle See also:

SISYPHUS

Sisyphus, who• had it removed to Corinth, and by command of the Nereids instituted the Isthmian See also:

GAMES, CLASSICAL

games and sacrifices in his See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour. There seems little doubt that the cult of Melicertes was of See also:

FOREIGN

foreign, probably Phoenician, origin, and introduced by Phoenician navigators on the coasts and islands of the See also:

AEGEAN

Aegean and Mediterranean. He is a native of See also:

BOEOTIA

Boeotia, where Phoenician influences were strong; at Tenedos he was propitiated by the See also:

SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

sacrifice of See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, which seems to point to his identity with Melkart. The premature See also:

DEATH

death of the See also:

child in the Greek See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the legend is probably an allusion to this. The See also:

Romans identified Palaemon with See also:

PORTUNUS, or PORTUMNUS

Portunus (the See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour See also:

GOD

god). No satisfactory origin of the name Palaemon has been liven. It has been suggested that it means the " wrestler " or ' struggler " (waXa(w) and is an epithet of Heracles, who is often identified with Melkart, but there does not appear to be any traditional connexion between Heracles and Palaemon. Meltcertes being Phoenician, Palaemon also has been explained as the " burning See also:

lord " (See also:

BAAL

Baal-haman), but there seems little in See also:

COMMON

common between a god of the sea and a god of See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

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APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii. 4, 3; See also:

OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, Metam. iv. 416-542, See also:

FASTI

Fasti, vi. 485; See also:

Hyginus, Fab. 2; See also:

PAUSANIAS

Pausanias i. 44, ii. 1; See also:

PHILOSTRATUS

Philostratus, Icones, ii. 16; articles by Toutain in Daremberg and Saglio's Diction'. naire See also:

DES

des antiquites and by Stoll in See also:

ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; L. See also:

Preller, Griechische Mythologie; R. See also:

Brown, Semitic See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

Influence in Hellenic See also:

MYTHOLOGY

Mythology (1898).

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