Myia
demonic earth Greek single tradition · 2
Myia was an exceedingly fair but very chatty young maiden in Greek mythology who fell in love with the immortal Endymion. She would wake Endymion with her endless chatter, irritating him and enraging his lover, the moon goddess Selene. Selene transformed Myia into a fly, who annoys sleeping people to this day in memory of her love and her deeds in her previous life.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 100 CE
- Attested period
- 100 – 200
- Historical notes
- Attested only in Lucian of Samosata's second-century satirical work Praising a Fly.
Relationships
- manifests as
- Abyzou, Petomene, Anabardalea, Gello, Gyllou, Amorphous, Karkhous, Brianê, Bardellous, Aigyptianê, Barna, Kharkhanistrea, Adikia, fly
- enemy of
- Selene
- manifested by
- Gyllou, Amorphous, Karkhous, Brianê, Bardellous, Aigyptianê, Barna, Kharkhanistrea, Adikia, Petomene, Anabardalea, Gello
- co occurs with
- Alectryon
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“the tenth Adikia; ... the twelfth Myia; the half Petomene.”
#5621 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Similarly to the myth of the boy-turned-rooster Alectryon (also surviving in the works of Lucian) Myia's story is an aetiological myth which nonetheless does not link its protagonist to a specific Greek place or lineage”
#20282 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5