In Greek mythology, Melantho (; Ancient Greek: Μελανθώ) may refer to the following women:
Melantho, also called Melanthea, a Phthian princess as the daughter of King DeucalionTzetzes ad Lycophron, 208; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 1094 and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. She was the sister of Hellen, Protogenea and Amphictyon.Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 5 Most, pp. 46, 47 [= fr. 4 Merkelbach-West, p. 5 = Scholia ad Homer's Odyssey 10.2 (Dindorf, p. 444)]. Melanthea’s other possible siblings were Pandora, Thyia,Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 2, 5 & 7; cf. M.L. West (1985) The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Oxford, pp. 50–2, who posits that a third daughter, Protogeneia, who was named at (e.g.) Pausanias, 5.1.3, was also present in the Catalogue. Orestheus, Marathonios, PronousHecateus, fr. 1F13Gantz, p. 167. and CandybusStephanus_of_Byzantium, s.v. Kandyba (Κάνδυβα). Melantho was seduced by Poseidon the shape of a dolphinOvid, Metamorphoses 6.120 and by him, bore a son Delphus.Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 208 In one account, Melantheia instead married King Hyamus of Hyampolis, son of Lycorus, and by him the mother of two daughters, MelanisScholia ad Euripides, Orestes 1094 and CelaenoPausanias, 10.6.3 of whom either might have been mother of Delphus by Apollo. Melantho, also called Melantomice,Augustine, City of God 18.8 an Argive queen as the wife of King Criasus. She was the mother of Phorbas, Ereuthalion and Cleoboea.Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 932; ad Phoenician Women 1116 Melantho, the disloyal maid of Penelope.Homer, Odyssey 18.320
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