Crossword clues for melas
melas
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Melas may refer to:
- Pavlos Melas (1870–1904), an officer of the Greek army
- Panagiotis Melas, Greek politician and member of the Greek Parliament
- Melas, Kastoria, the village where Pavlos Melas died, part of the municipality Kastoria, Greece
- Pavlos Melas (municipality), a municipality in the urban area of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Michael von Melas, an Austrian field marshal during the Napoleonic Wars
- MELAS, Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, Stroke-like episodes
- Melas (mythology), name of eight different characters in Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, the name Melas refers to a number of characters.
- Melas, son of Poseidon and an unnamed nymph of Chios, brother of Agelus. He may or may not be identical to Melas, son of Poseidon, who was said to have given his name to the river Melas in Egypt, which was later renamed Nile.
- Melas, one of the sons of Phrixus and Chalciope. By Eurycleia, daughter of Athamas and Themisto, he became the father of Hyperes.
- Melas, one of the sons of Porthaon and Euryte. He was the father of Pheneus, Euryalus, Hyperlaus, Antiochus, Eumedes, Sternops, Xanthippus and Sthenelaus, who were all slain by Tydeus for plotting against their uncle Oeneus.
- Melas, one of the Tyrrhenian pirates who attempted to delude Dionysus but were transformed into dolphins by him.
- Melas, son of Licymnius. He and his brother Argius accompanied Heracles in his campaign against Eurytus, and both fell in the battle.
- Melas, son of Oenopion and brother of Talus, Euanthes, Salagus and Athamas. He, together with his father and brothers, sailed from Crete to Chios and settled there.
- Melas, son of Antasus, from Gonusa near Sicyon. He expressed desire to join the Dorians in their expedition against Corinth. Aletes consulted the oracle of Apollo about him; the god expressed disapproval, and Aletes at first told Melas to go and search for other allies among the Greeks, but then changed his mind and, neglecting the prophecy, let him join. Melas was the ancestor of Cypselus.
- Melas, son of Ops. Athena assumed his shape to persuade Teuthis not to withdraw his army from Aulis. Teuthis, outraged, hit whom he took for Melas with a spear and did return home. Later, he saw the wounded goddess in a dream; he was then struck with a wasting disease, and his country suffered from famine.
Usage examples of "melas".
Then I looked out of the window and saw you being trapped by the Melas tree.
And sorry for the Melas tree, too, because I was depriving it of further companions.
The Melas tree and we Petrans have a bond of sympathy, something in common which distinguishes us from all other living creatures on Amara.
And tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow… In short, a Melas tree existing in thousands of future instants of time.
But by then you would have helped to create a whole forest of Melas trees.
One purple day he found himself standing at the edge of the grove of Melas trees, daring himself like a schoolboy to dart in and out, just out of reach of their branches.
The Melas trees were all around him again, and he had no strength to run and no breath to scream.
It reminded Sherret of Rosala’s painting of himself in the grip of the Melas tree.
Finally, finding him proof against every threat, they had hurled him back into his prison, and after reproaching Melas with his treachery, which appeared from the newspaper advertisement, they had stunned him with a blow from a stick, and he remembered nothing more until he found us bending over him.
Finally, finding him proof against every threat, they had hurled him back into his prison and after reproaching Melas with his treachery, which appeared from the newspaper advertisement, they had stunned him with a blow from a stick, and he remembered nothing more until he found us bending over him.
There’s a lot of interesting possibilities to be found at the bottom of the Valles, and Melas Chasma has some of the best potential for all sorts of stuff, including mineral finds of various sorts.
He wanted to get the best data he could on the target location, which was in the Melas Chasma area.
But the angles, curves, and outline of the structure revealed beneath the floor of that section of Melas Chasma was as familiar as it was clearly not natural.
Tricky to set down in, though—and Melas Chasma provides some of the few good landing areas in it.
However much the state of decay of the ruins at Melas Chasma frustrated his professional desire for the sort of things he could investigate thoroughly with his methods, as he’d been able to on Phobos, the personal side of his life was as good as he could ask for.