Ancient Greek female name
In Greek mythology, Melantho (; Ancient Greek: Μελανθώ) may refer to the following women:
- Melantho, also called Melanthea, a Phthian princess as the daughter of King Deucalion[1] and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen, Protogenea and Amphictyon.[2] Melanthea’s other possible siblings were 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] In one account, Melantheia instead married King Hyamus of Hyampolis, son of Lycorus, and by him the mother of two daughters, Melanis[9] and Celaeno[10] of whom either might have been mother of Delphus by Apollo.
- Melantho, also called Melantomice,[11] an Argive queen as the wife of King Criasus. She was the mother of Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea.[12]
- Melantho, the disloyal maid of Penelope.[13]
- ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 208 (Gk. text); Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 1094
- ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 5 Most, pp. 46, 47 [= fr. 4 Merkelbach-West, p. 5 = Scholia on Homer's Odyssey 10.2 (Dindorf, p. 444)].
- ^ 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, 5.1.3, was also present in the Catalogue.
- ^ Hecateus, fr. 1F13
- ^ Gantz, p. 167.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Κάνδυβα
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.120
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 208
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 1094
- ^ Pausanias, 10.6.3.
- ^ Augustine, City of God 18.8
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932; on Phoenician Women 1116
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 18.320