Melite (Attica)

[1] In the 19th and 20th centuries, it was believed that the name had a Phoenician influence, in fact it is homophone of the ancient names of the island of Malta and of Samothrace; today, however, it is believed that the toponym derives from the word "honey" (Ancient Greek: μέλι, romanized: méli).

There was also a sanctuary of Heracles, with a statue by Phidias or his teacher Ageladas erected to commemorate the end of an epidemic in 429 BCE.

[1][2] Eurysaces, son of Ajax the Great, was the owner of a sanctuary in which he was venerated along with his father.

Tradition said that the original inhabitants of the deme emigrated to Diomea, where they brought with them the cult of Heracles.

Melite was a very populous place: among the non-native inhabitants of here there were Epicurus, who left his home to the successive heads of his school; Callias II; Phocion; Themistocles, who had a temple to Artemis built near his house.