Melanchaetes

Melanchaetes ( ancient Greek Μελαγχαίτης "black hair ") is in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hygins Fabulae one of the dogs of the Aktaion who eventually tear him apart. He'd fallen back on the hunt against the pack, but then took a shortcut across a ridge. Melanchaetes was the first bitch to attack Aktaion and wounded in the back, while two other bitches, Theridamas and Oresitrophos , grab his shoulders.

swell

• Ovid, Metamorphoses 3,232
• Hyginus, Fabulae 181

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Melanchaites . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2575 ( digitized version ).