Melanthus
Family: Athens · Role: father of Codrus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 19
Melanthus, son of Andropompus, seized the kingdom of Athens after driving out Thymœtes, the last of the descendants of Theseus to reign there. Later, his son Codrus was slain by the Peloponnesians. Much later, Apœcus, Melanthus’s great-great-grandson, led the Ionians to Teos without harming the Orchomenians or Teians.
Relationship record
Life events
- Melanthus seized the kingdom of Athens after driving out Thymœtes.(Book 2 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Thymœtes
- “Melanthus also had the kingdom, after driving out Thymœtes, the son of Oxyntas, who was the last of the descendants of Theseus that reigned at Athens.”
Book 1 · Chapter 19
- child: Codrus “The place is also shewn where the Peloponnesians slew Codrus, the son of Melanthus, the king of Athens.”
Book 2 · Chapter 18
- parent: Andropompus “Melanthus the son of Andropompus, the son of Borus”
- with Thymœtes (Melanthus drove Thymœtes out and took the kingdom.) “Melanthus also had the kingdom, after driving out Thymœtes”
- with Nestor (interaction) “the descendants of Nestor from Messenia, viz. Alcmæon the son of Sillus the son of Thrasymedes, and Pisistratus the son of Pisistratus, and the sons of Pæon the son of Antilochus, and besides them Melanthus the son of Andropompus”
Book 7 · Chapter 1
- parent: Andropompus “And when the Ionians migrated to Attica the Athenians and their king, Melanthus the son of Andropompus, welcomed them as settlers, in gratitude to Ion and his services to the Athenians as Commander in Chief.”
Book 7 · Chapter 3
- with Apœcus (Apœcus was the great-great-grandson of Melanthus.) “And the Ionians were conducted to Teos by Apœcus, the great-great-grandson of Melanthus, who did no harm to either the Orchomenians or Teians.”
- younger kin: Apœcus “And the Ionians were conducted to Teos by Apœcus, the great-great-grandson of Melanthus, who did no harm to either the Orchomenians or Teians.”
Book 7 · Chapter 25
- child: Codrus “This the Greeks remembered when the Peloponnesians came to Athens, in the reign of Codrus the son of Melanthus.”
Book 8 · Chapter 52
- child: Codrus “Codrus the son of Melanthus”
Book 10 · Chapter 10
- child: Codrus “Codrus the son of Melanthus”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.