MILETUS

a son of Apollo and Areia of Crete. Being beloved by Minos and Sarpedon, he attached himself to the latter, and fled from Minos to Caria, where he built a town, which he called after his own name (Apollodorus iii. Argonautica. Ovid ( Metamorphoses IV) calls him a son of Apollo and Deione, and hence Deionides. A different genealogy and story about him is preserved in Antonius Liberalis