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テオクリトスの『''イディール''(Idylls)』には、マリス(Μαλίς)という名の水のニンフが登場する<ref>Payne, 2019, p242</ref>。ユニカ、ニケイア<ref>Serangeli, 2015, p378</ref>という2人のニンフとともにプロポンティス島のキオスに住み、ハイラスを誘拐した張本人である<ref>Rutherford, 2020, p330</ref>。イアン・ラザフォードは、マリスが川の精であるという見解は、マリヤの本来の役割である川の女神と一致しているように見えると述べている<ref>Rutherford, 2020, p331</ref>。ソポクレスは『ピロクテテス』の中で、スペルケイオス川のマリアデス(Μαλιάδες)という似た名前の複数のニンフについて言及している。ソポクレスは『ピロクテテス』の中で、スペルケイオス川のマリアデス(Μαλιάδες)という似た名前の複数のニンフに<ref>Payne, 2019, p242</ref>ついて言及している<ref>Serangeli, 2015, p379</ref>。しかし、ラザフォードによれば、彼らは単数形のマリスとは関係がない可能性が高く、代わりにギリシャのマリスと関係があると考えるべきであるという<ref>Rutherford, 2020, p330</ref>。
A water [[nymph]] ([[naiad]]) named Malis (Μαλίς) is attested in [[Theocritus]]' ''Idylls''. Alongside two other nymphs, Eunika and Nicheia, she resided in [[Kios]] on [[Propontis]], and together they were responsible for the abduction of [[Hylas]]. Ian Rutherford notes that view that Malis was a river nymph appears to align with the original role of Maliya as a river goddess.[[Sophocles]] in the play ''[[Philoctetes (Sophocles play)|Philoctetes]]'' mentions a plurality of nymphs with a similar name,{{sfn|Payne|2019|p=242}} [[Meliae|Maliades]] (Μαλιάδες) from the river [[Spercheios]]. However, according to Rutherford, they are most likely not related to the singular Malis, and should be assumed to be connected to [[Malians (Greek tribe)|Malis]] in Greece instead.{{sfn|Rutherford|2020|p=330}}
In a different Greek tradition Malis, while associated with Lydia, was only regarded as a slave of [[Omphale]], a mythical queen of this realm.{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=411}}{{sfn|Rutherford|2020|p=330}} This view can be found in the works of [[Stephanus of Byzantium]] and [[Hellanicus of Lesbos|Hellanikos]].{{sfn|Payne|2019|p=242}} According to the latter of these two authors, she had a son with [[Heracles]], Akeles, which might reflect a tradition in which the goddess Malis was worshiped alongside Sandas, an Anatolian god identified with the Greek hero, though there is no certain evidence in favor of this interpretation,{{sfn|Rutherford|2017|p=91}} and no known texts from the second millennium BCE associate them with each other.{{sfn|Watkins|2007|p=123}}