Melantho
In Greek mythology, Melantho (/mɪˈlænθoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Μελανθώ) may refer to the following women:
- Melantho, a Thessalian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion and possibly Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus. She was probably the sister of Hellen, Protogenea,[1] Amphictyon,[2] Pandora, Thyia,[3] Orestheus, Marathonios, Pronous,[4][5] and Candybus.[6] Melantho was seduced by Poseidon the shape of a dolphin[7] and by him, bore a son Delphus.[8]
- Melantho, also called Melantomice,[9] an Argive queen as the wife of King Criasus. She was the mother of Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea.[10]
- Melantho, the disloyal maid of Penelope.[11]
Notes
- Pherecydes fr. 3F23
- Apollodorus, 1.7.2
- Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 2, 5 & 7; cf. M.L. West (1985) The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Oxford, pp. 50–2, who posits that a third daughter, Protogeneia, who was named at (e.g.) Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.1.3, was also present in the Catalogue.
- Hecateus, fr. 1F13
- Gantz, Timothy (1993). Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Ancient Sources. The Johns Hopkins Press Ltd., London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-8018-4410-X.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Κάνδυβα
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.120
- Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 208
- Augustine, City of God 18.8
- Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932; on Phoenician Women 1116
- Homer, Odyssey 18.320
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
- Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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