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Delphica is a lost work on Delphi by Melisseus, an author of whom nothing is known beyond the fact that he compiled it. It survives only in a single fragment, quoted in a scholion on Hesiod's Works and Days. The fragment reports that the land of Pieria, founded by Pierus, brother of Methone and father of Linus, was later called Lyncus, and that it was ruled by Aeropus, the eldest son of Emathion.
The fragment is a small example of the local and mythological history that Greek writers collected about sanctuaries and regions. It preserves a genealogical tradition about early Macedonia and Pieria, the homeland of the Muses, that is otherwise poorly attested.
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