Meliboea

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• The wife of Magnes
  Magnes (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Magnes was a name attributed to two men.*Magnes, son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, or of Aeolus and Enarete, or of Argus, first king of Magnesia, and brother of Makednos....
  , who named the town of Meliboea in Thessaly
  Thessaly
  
  Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
   after her. The town of Meliboea became a kingdom in eastern Thessalia (north Magnesia
  Magnesia
  
  Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
  ). Nowadays, Meliboea (Melivia) is a municipality of Larissa prefecture
  Larissa Prefecture
  
  Larissa is a Prefectures of Greece of Greece, in the Peripheries of Greece of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Larissa. The prefecture was created in 1881 after the war when most of Thessaly became a part of Greece and the entire region in 1913 after the Balkan Wars....
  . The exact place of ancient Melivia is not known.
• The only Niobid spared when Artemis
  Artemis
  
  In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
   and Apollo killed them. She was so upset that she changed her name to Chloris
  Chloris
  
  There are many stories in Greek mythology about figures named Chloris . Some clearly refer to different characters; other stories may refer to the same Chloris, but disagree on details....
   ("the pale one").
• The daughter of Oceanus
  Oceanus
  
  Oceanus was believed to be the World Ocean in classical antiquity, which the Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece considered to be an enormous river encircling the world....
   and Tethys
  Tethys (mythology)
  
  File:Tethys mosaic 83d40m Phillopolis mid4th century -p2fx.2.jpgIn Greek mythology, Tethys , daughter of Uranus and Gaia was an archaic Titan ess and Greek sea gods sea goddess, invoked in classical Greek poetry but no longer venerated in cult....
   and mother of Lycaon with Pelasgus
  Pelasgus
  
  In Greek mythology, Pelasgus referred to several different people.#One was the first king of Arcadia, the ancestor of the Pelasgians, whom Herodotus claimed were the oldest inhabitants of Greece....
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Kings of Meliboea

• King Poeas
  Poeas
  
  In Greek mythology, Poeas, or Poias was one of the Argonauts and a friend of Heracles.*As an Argonaut, Poeas is identified as the greatest archer of the group....
   (Argonaut
  Argonaut
  
  Argonaut may refer to:* Argonaut , a kind of octopus in the genus Argonauta* Jason and the Argonauts, sailors in Greek mythology* Argonauts of Saint Nicholas, a military order in Naples...
  ), a friend of Hercules
  Hercules
  
  Hercules is the Ancient Rome name for the mythical Ancient Greece hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italian shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his strength....
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• King Philoctetes
  Philoctetes
  
  In Greek mythology, Philoctetes was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War....
  , son of Poeas, was a famous archer, and a participant in the Trojan War
  Trojan War
  
  In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
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