Melanthius
Μελάνθιος
(Μελάνθιος), also called Melantheus, a son of Dolius, was a goat-herd of Odysscus, sided with the suitors of Penelope, and was cruelly killed by Odysseus. (Hom. Od. 17.212, &c., 21.176, 22.474, &c.)
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.