Miletus (mythology)
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- MiletusMiletus (Ancient Greek: Μίλητος) was a character from Greek mythology.
Miletus was son of Apollo and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of Crete. 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. Another tradition relates that Miletus' mother by Apollo was 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. Yet another source 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 Telchinian woman Dexithea.
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