Myia or Muia () may refer to:

People

Myia Myia (; , literally "Fly"; fl. c. 500 BC) was a Pythagorean philosopher and, according to later tradition, one of the daughters of Theano and Pythagoras. Life Myia was married to Milo of Croton, the famous athlete. She was a choir leader as a ...

, a philosopher, daughter of Theano and Pythagoras * Myia, a poet from

Sparta Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the Evrotas Valley, valley of Evrotas (river), Evrotas rive ...

* Myia, the nickname of the ancient Greek poet

Corinna Corinna or Korinna () was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Tanagra in Boeotia. Although ancient sources portray her as a contemporary of Pindar (born ), not all modern scholars accept the accuracy of this tradition. When she lived has been th ...

Insect

* Μυῖα, ancient Greek for

fly Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

Mythology

Myia (mythology) In Lucian of Samosata's works, Myia () is a young girl who fell in love with Endymion (mythology), Endymion and was transformed by the List of lunar deities, lunar goddess Selene into a fly, a small insect bearing her name. Etymology The ancie ...

, a girl who was transformed into a fly by

Selene In ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion, religion, Selene (; , meaning "Moon")''A Greek–English Lexicon's.v. σελήνη is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene (), she is traditionally the daughter ...

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