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Greek deities series
Primordial deities Titans and Olympians Chthonic deities Personified concepts
Water deities
Amphitrite Ceto Glaucus Nereus Oceanus Phorcys Pontus Poseidon Potamoi Proteus Tethys Thetis Triton
Water nymphs
Crinaeae Eleionomae Hyades Limnades Naiads Nereids Oceanids Pegaeae Pegasides Potamides
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In Greek mythology, Melobosis (Ancient Greek: Μηλόβοσίς Mêlobosis means 'sheep-feeder') was one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.

Mythology

Along with her sisters, Melobosis was one of the companions of Persephone when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades.

Hesiod, Theogony 354
Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 230. ISBN 9780786471119.
Homeric Hymn to Demeter 420; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.30.4

Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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