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Melantho

Μελανθώ

(Μελανθώ).

1. A daughter of Dolius, and sister of Melanthius; she was a slave in the house of Odysseus; and having sided, like her brother, with the suitors, she was hanged by Odysseus. (Hom. Od. 18.321; Paus. 10.25.1.)

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.