In Greek mythology, Melisseus ("bee-man" or "honey-man") is the Cretan figure — often eldest of the Curetes — to whom Rhea entrusts the infant Zeus. Apollodorus makes him father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida (or Adrasteia and Idaea), nurses of the god; later mythographers remember him as a king of Crete whose house is bound up with honey, Amalthea, and the clashing shields that hid Zeus' cries from Cronus.
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I.Father of Zeus' nurses
Apollodorus: Rhea gives the newborn Zeus to Melisseus' daughters Adrasteia and Ida to nurse, while the Curetes clash spears and shields about the cave so Cronus will not hear the child. Parentage of Melisseus himself wanders — Gaia and Uranus, Carystus, or Socus and Combe — but his role as honey-king and leader of the Idaean guardians is stable.
The infant is fed on milk (Amalthea) and honey; when Zeus comes of age he rewards the nurses with Amalthea's cornucopia. Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus plays on the etymologies that bind Cretan names to this infancy.
II.Curetes and Rhodes
Nonnus elaborates the nine Curetes under Melisseus' lead. Diodorus links Cretan Melisseus to a purifying role when Triopas, fugitive from Rhodes after killing Tenages, flees to the Chersonese opposite Rhodes where Curetes had settled.
The atlas id melisseus-cretan is this Cretan honey-king — not a generic bee-nymph Melissa without the Curetic household.