Herodotus' Histories

Melanthos

Family: Ionian · Role: father of Codros · First appears: Book 1 · §139–147

Book 1 · §139–147

  • child: Codros “descendants of Codros the son of Melanthos”

Book 5 · §63–69

  • with Cleisthenes (Athens) (Shared ancestry; the passage does not specify the exact genealogical link.) “These also were originally Pylians and sons of Neleus, descended from the same ancestors as the family of Codros and Melanthos”

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