Melanion
Family: Arcadia · Role: father of Parthenopaeus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.6
Life events
- Melanion won the race, so Atalanta married him.(Apollodorus, Library 3.9)
- With: Atalanta
- “she, picking up the dropped fruit, was beaten in the race. So Melanion married her”
Apollodorus, Library 3.6
- child: Parthenopaeus “Parthenopaeus, son of Melanion, was an Arcadian.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.9
- parent: Amphidamas “And Amphidamas had a son Melanion and a daughter Antimache, whom Eurystheus married.”
- married with Atalanta “So Melanion married her.”
- with Aphrodite (Aphrodite supplied Melanion with golden apples.) “Melanion came to run for love of her, bringing golden apples from Aphrodite, and being pursued he threw them down”
- child: Parthenopaeus “And by Melanion, or Ares, Atalanta had a son Parthenopaeus”
- siblings with Antimache “Amphidamas had a son Melanion and a daughter Antimache”
- courtship with Atalanta “Melanion came to run for love of her, bringing golden apples from Aphrodite”
- with Aphrodite (Melanion brought golden apples from Aphrodite.) “Melanion came to run for love of her, bringing golden apples from Aphrodite”
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