Meles
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Meles deep in reeds · sacred Meles
in the texts
Epigrams
A sacred stream running through or by Aeolian Smyrna.
By the will of Zeus who holds the aegis the people of Phricon, riders on wanton horses, more active than raging fire in the test of war, once built the towers of Aeolian Smyrna, wave-shaken neighbor to the sea, through which glides the pleasant stream of sacred Meles;
Hymn 9 to Artemis
Meles is the reed-filled water source where Artemis waters her horses.
She waters her horses from Meles deep in reeds, and swiftly drives her all-golden chariot through Smyrna to vine-clad Claros where Apollo, god of the silver bow, sits waiting for the far-shooting goddess who delights in arrows.