Melas (son of Porthaon)
Melas ( Greek Μέλας ) is in Greek mythology a son of Porthaon , the Aitolian king of Pleuron and Kalydon , and Euryte . As siblings he had the brothers Oineus , Agrios , Alkathoos and Leukopeus as well as Sterope , who is said to have been the mother of the Sirens , as a sister.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Melas 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Sp. 2585-2585 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Pausanias 4, 35, 1.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 175.
- ↑ Pausanias 6, 20, 17 and 6, 21, 10.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 7, 10.