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	'''Miletus''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μίλητος) was a character from [[Greek mythology]].		'''Miletus''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μίλητος) was a character from [[Greek mythology]].
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	Miletus was son of [[Apollo]] and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of [[Crete]].<ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 1. 2">Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)\|Bibliotheca]]'' 3. 1. 2</ref> When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of [[smilax]]; Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius" /> Another tradition relates that Miletus' mother by Apollo was [[Acacallis (mythology)\|Akakallis]], the daughter of [[Minos]]. Fearing her father's wrath she exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child.<ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 30">[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'', 30</ref> Yet another source<ref>[[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'', 9. 442</ref> calls his mother Deione, and himself by the [[matronymic]] Deionides. Finally, one source gives Miletus as the son of [[Euxantius]], himself son of Minos by a [[Telchines\|Telchinian]] woman Dexithea.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius">[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''Argonautica'', 1. 185</ref>		Miletus was son of [[Apollo]] and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of [[Crete]].<ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 1. 2">Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)\|Bibliotheca]]'' 3. 1. 2</ref> When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of [[smilax]]; Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius" /> Another tradition relates that Miletus' mother by Apollo was [[Acacallis (mythology)\|Akakallis]], the daughter of [[Minos]]. Fearing her father's wrath she exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child.<ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 30">[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'', 30</ref> Yet another source<ref>[[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'', 9. 442</ref> calls his mother Deione, and himself by the [[matronymic]] Deionides. Finally, one source gives Miletus as the son of [[Euxantius]], himself son of Minos by a [[Telchines\|Telchinian]] woman Dexithea.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius">[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''Argonautica'', 1. 185</ref>

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	'''Miletus''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μίλητος) was a character from [[Greek mythology]].		'''Miletus''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μίλητος) was a character from [[Greek mythology]].
			{{History}}
	Miletus was son of [[Apollo]] and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of [[Crete]].<ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 1. 2">Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)\|Bibliotheca]]'' 3. 1. 2</ref> When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of [[smilax]]; Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius" /> Another tradition relates that Miletus' mother by Apollo was [[Acacallis (mythology)\|Akakallis]], the daughter of [[Minos]]. Fearing her father's wrath she exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child.<ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 30">[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'', 30</ref> Yet another source<ref>[[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'', 9. 442</ref> calls his mother Deione, and himself by the [[matronymic]] Deionides. Finally, one source gives Miletus as the son of [[Euxantius]], himself son of Minos by a [[Telchines\|Telchinian]] woman Dexithea.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius">[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''Argonautica'', 1. 185</ref>		Miletus was son of [[Apollo]] and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of [[Crete]].<ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 1. 2">Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)\|Bibliotheca]]'' 3. 1. 2</ref> When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of [[smilax]]; Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius" /> Another tradition relates that Miletus' mother by Apollo was [[Acacallis (mythology)\|Akakallis]], the daughter of [[Minos]]. Fearing her father's wrath she exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child.<ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 30">[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'', 30</ref> Yet another source<ref>[[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'', 9. 442</ref> calls his mother Deione, and himself by the [[matronymic]] Deionides. Finally, one source gives Miletus as the son of [[Euxantius]], himself son of Minos by a [[Telchines\|Telchinian]] woman Dexithea.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius">[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''Argonautica'', 1. 185</ref>

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'''Miletus''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Μίλητος) was a character from [[Greek mythology]].

Miletus was son of [[Apollo]] and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of [[Crete]].<ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 1. 2">Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]]'' 3. 1. 2</ref> When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of [[smilax]]; Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius" /> Another tradition relates that Miletus' mother by Apollo was [[Acacallis (mythology)|Akakallis]], the daughter of [[Minos]]. Fearing her father's wrath she exposed the child, but Apollo commanded the she-wolves to come down and nurse the child.<ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 30">[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'', 30</ref> Yet another source<ref>[[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'', 9. 442</ref> calls his mother Deione, and himself by the [[matronymic]] Deionides. Finally, one source gives Miletus as the son of [[Euxantius]], himself son of Minos by a [[Telchines|Telchinian]] woman Dexithea.<ref name="Scholia on Apollonius">[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''Argonautica'', 1. 185</ref>

He was loved by both Minos and [[Sarpedon]], but showed preference for the latter, and this became the reason why Sarpedon was expelled from Crete by his brother. Following the advice of Sarpedon, Miletus also left Crete for [[Samos]], then moved to [[Caria]] and became the mythical founder and [[eponym]] of the city of [[Miletus]].<ref name="Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 1. 2" /><ref name="Scholia on Apollonius" /><ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 30" /> Myths further relate that the hero Miletus founded the city only after slaying a giant named Asterius, son of [[Anax (Greek)|Anax]]; and that the region known as Miletus was originally called '[[Anactoria]]'.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'', 7. 2. 5</ref>

Miletus married either Eidothea, daughter of Eurytus, or Tragasia, daughter of Celaenus, or Cyanee, daughter of the river god [[Maeander]], or Areia, and by her had a son [[Kaunos (mythology)|Kaunos]] (Caunus) and a daughter [[Byblis]], who happened to develop incestuous feelings for each other.<ref name="Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 30" /><ref>[[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'', 9. 446 - 665</ref><ref>[[Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]], ''Love Romances'', 11</ref><ref>[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'', 2</ref><ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Theocritus]], Idyll 7, 115</ref>

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