Melanippus
- The name Melanippus is the masculine counterpart of Melanippe.
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- Melanippus, one of the sons of
- Melanippus or Menalippus, brother of Tydeus and thus possible son of Oeneus, king of Calydon and Periboea.[3] He was accidentally slain by Tydeus during a hunt. In some accounts, the murdered brother of Tydeus was called Olenias.[4]
- Melanippus, son of Perigune and Theseus, the father of Ioxus who, together with Ornytus, led a colony to Caria and became the ancestor of the family Ioxides.[5]
- Melanippus, sometimes misspelled "Menalippus", son of
- Melanippus, son of Antilochus during the Trojan War.[17]
- Melanippus, one of the 50 sons of Priam. His mother was a woman other than Hecuba. He fought in the Trojan War and was killed by Teucer.[18] In some accounts, Melanippus was described to have a plume of horsehair like his brother Idaeus.[19]
- Melanippus, yet another Trojan, who was killed by Patroclus.[20]
- Melanippus, one of the Achaeans who fought at Troy. He was one of those who helped Odysseus carry the gifts at the point of reconciliation between Achilles and Agamemnon.[21]
- Melanippus, son of Ares and Triteia, daughter of the sea-god Triton, founder of the city of Tritaia, which he named after his own mother.[22]
- Melanippus, a young man of
- Melanippus, son of Helorus, leader of the Mysian contingent in the Trojan War, killed by Neoptolemus.[24]
- Menalippus (misspelling of "Melanippus"? cf. #3 above), a son of Acastus. He, alongside his brother Pleisthenes and their servant Cinyras, was killed by Neoptolemus as they were hunting near the latter's grandfather Peleus' hideout, since Acastus and his family had been hostile towards Peleus.[25]
In ancient Sicily, Melanippus was a hero of Agrigento alongside his lover Chariton. They plotted against the cruel tyrant Phalaris, but were denounced and tortured. However, their mutual love and their refusal to betray their friends as accomplices moved the tyrant, who dismissed them with great praise.[26]
Notes
- 2.212
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.8.6
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 69 & 70
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.8.5
- ^ Pausanias, 10.25.7; Plutarch, Theseus 8.3
- ^ Ovid, Ibis 515
- Seven Against Thebes609
- ^ Herodotus, 5.67.3; Pausanias, 9.18.1
- ^ Pausanias, 9.18.1; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 5.126; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1066
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.6.8; Statius, Thebaid 8.171 ff.
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1066
- ^ Herodotus, 5.67.2–5
- ^ Strabo, 13.1.7
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 10.132
- ^ Pausanias, 10.26.1 with reference to Stesichorus, The Sack of Troy
- ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 349; scholia on Iliad 3.201
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.546 & 575
- ^ Homer, Iliad 8.276; Apollodorus, 3.12.5
- ^ Photius, Bibliotheca 190.37
- ^ Homer, Iliad 16.695
- ^ Homer, Iliad 19.240
- ^ Pausanias, 7.22.8
- ^ Pausanias, 7.19.1–9
- ^ Tzetzes, Posthomerica 554
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 6.8
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 13.78
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- Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com