Melaenis
Μελαινίς
(Μελαινίς), i.e. the dark, a surname of Aphrodite, under which she was worshipped at Corinth. (Paus. 2.2.4; comp. 8.6.2, 9.17.4; Athen. 13.588.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.