Melantho

In Greek mythology, Melantho (/mɪˈlænθ/; Ancient Greek: Μελανθώ) may refer to the following women:

  1. ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 208 (Gk. text); Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 1094
  2. ^ 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)].
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Hecateus, fr. 1F13
  5. ^ Gantz, p. 167.
  6. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Κάνδυβα
  7. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.120
  8. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 208
  9. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 1094
  10. ^ Pausanias, 10.6.3.
  11. ^ Augustine, City of God 18.8
  12. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932; on Phoenician Women 1116
  13. ^ Homer, Odyssey 18.320