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- son of Amythaon, prophet
- LIMC headword
- Melampous
- Son of
- 👤 Amythaon 👤 Eidomene
- Father of
- 👤 Abas (Argive II) 👤 Mantios 👤 Antiphates (Argive)
- Husband of
- 👤 Iphianassa (Argive) 👤 Lysippe (Argive)
- Ruler of
- 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 the Argolid 🌍 the Sanctuary of Hera at Argos
- Granted power of prophecy by
- 👤 Apollo
- Prophet at
- 🌍 Pylos (Messenia)
- Creates
- 🏛️ the Altar of Athena Alea at Tegea 🌍 the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythaieus at Asine (Argolid) 🏛️ the Altar of Apollo Pythaieus at Asine
- Cult sites
- 🌍 Aigosthena (Megarid)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Abas (Argive II) 👤 Admetos (Argonaut) 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Amphiaraos 👤 Amythaon 👤 Apollo 👤 Arcas 👤 Baton 👤 Bias (Argive) 👤 Cheiron (Centaur) 👤 Chrysippos (s. of Pelops) 👤 Eidomene 👤 Eileithyia 👥 the Erinyes 👤 Zeus 👤 Iphianassa (Argive) 👤 Iphiclos (s. of Phylacos) 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 👤 Peleus 👤 Iphicles 👤 Pero 👤 Pheres (Thessalian) 👤 Phocos (Aiginetan) 👤 Phylacos (Thessalian) 👤 Podarces (Thessalian) 👤 Proitos (Argive) 👤 Lysippe (Argive) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Neleus (Pylian) 👤 Telamon (Salamian) 👥 the Cattle of Phylacos 🌍 Pisa (Elis) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Sicyon (Argolid) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Pylos (Messenia) 🌍 Phylace (Thessaly) 🌍 Tiryns (Argolid) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 Thessaly 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 the Argolid 👤 Alpheios (river god) 👤 Anaxagoras 👤 Cillas (eponym) 👤 Clytios (s. of Alcmaion) 👤 Mantios 👤 Iamos 🌍 the Agora of Sicyon 👥 the Daughters of Proitos 🏛️ the Cave of the Daughters of Proitos (Arcadia) 🌍 Lousoi (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Hermasia at Lousoi (Arcadia) 🌍 Aigosthena (Megarid) 🌍 River Anigros (Elis) 👤 Cladeos (river god) 👤 Sosipolis 🏛️ the Altar of Athena Alea at Tegea 👤 Antiphates (Argive) 👤 Polypheides (Argive) 👤 Theoclymenos (s. of Polypheides) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Hera at Argos 🌍 Triphylia 🌍 the Sanctuary of Apollo Pythaieus at Asine (Argolid) 🏛️ the Altar of Apollo Pythaieus at Asine 👥 the Women of Argos 🏺 the Drugs of Melampous
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.11 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.12 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.13 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.2.2 📖 Pausanias 1.43.5 📖 Pausanias 1.44.5 📖 Pausanias 8.47.3 📖 Pausanias 2.18.4 📖 Pausanias 2.23.2 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.281-11.297 📖 Homer, Odyssey 15.222-15.264 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 35 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 80 Most 📖 Pausanias 4.36.1-4.36.5 📖 Pausanias 8.18.7-8.18.8 📖 Pausanias 5.5.8-5.5.10 📖 Pausanias 6.17.5-6.17.6 📖 Hesiod, Great Ehoiai fr. 199a, b Most 📖 Hesiod, Melampodia fr. 208 Most = fr. 272 MW 📖 Hesiod fr. 249 Most 📖 Bacchylides fr. 4 📖 Lucian, Essays in Portraiture Defended 20 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 124-168 📖 Pindar fr. 52d Snell-Maehler 📖 Hesiod, Melampodia fr. 210 Most 📖 Strabo 8.6.10 📖 Strabo 8.3.19 📖 Vergil, Georgics 3.531-3.566 📖 Diodoros, Library 6.8.1 ⚒️ Bronze Tablet from the Agora of Sicyon (Sicyon n/a)
- Depictions
- 🎨 East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia by Paionios (LIMC Alpheios 8)
- Relevant to local traditions reported from of
- 🌍 Cleitor (Arcadia)