Melaneus (archer)

Melaneus ( Greek  Μελανεύς ) is a famous archer in Greek mythology .

Melaneus was a son of the god Apollo . He was king of the Dryoper and conquered Epeiros . Later he came to Messinia to see Perieres , who assigned him the land near the Karnasian grove and named the town there after his wife Oichalia . His children are Eurytus and Ambrakia , after whom the city of Ambrakia in Epeiros was named.

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• Pausanias , Description of Greece 4,2,2; 4,3,10; 4.33.5.
• Antoninus Liberalis 4.3.

literature

• Jan Stenger: Melaneus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 1168 f.