Melanippus

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The name Melanippus is the masculine counterpart of Melanippe.

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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

  1. Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.888; Scholia on Homer, Iliad
    2.212
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 1.8.6
  3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 69 & 70
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 1.8.5
  5. ^ Pausanias, 10.25.7; Plutarch, Theseus 8.3
  6. ^ Ovid, Ibis 515
  7. Seven Against Thebes
    609
  8. ^ Herodotus, 5.67.3; Pausanias, 9.18.1
  9. ^ Pausanias, 9.18.1; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 5.126; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1066
  10. ^ Apollodorus, 3.6.8; Statius, Thebaid 8.171 ff.
  11. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1066
  12. ^ Herodotus, 5.67.2–5
  13. ^ Strabo, 13.1.7
  14. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 10.132
  15. ^ Pausanias, 10.26.1 with reference to Stesichorus, The Sack of Troy
  16. ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 349; scholia on Iliad 3.201
  17. ^ Homer, Iliad 15.546 & 575
  18. ^ Homer, Iliad 8.276; Apollodorus, 3.12.5
  19. ^ Photius, Bibliotheca 190.37
  20. ^ Homer, Iliad 16.695
  21. ^ Homer, Iliad 19.240
  22. ^ Pausanias, 7.22.8
  23. ^ Pausanias, 7.19.1–9
  24. ^ Tzetzes, Posthomerica 554
  25. ^ Dictys Cretensis, 6.8
  26. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 13.78

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