Melaneus

Role: skilful archer · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 2

In Book 4, Chapter 2, Melaneus, a skilful archer thought to be the son of Apollo, was assigned Carnasium as his dwelling by Perieres. In Chapter 3, Eurytus is identified as his son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Perieres assigned Carnasium to Melaneus as his dwelling.(Book 4 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Carnasium)
  • “Perieres assigned to him Carnasium to dwell in”

Book 4 · Chapter 2

• with Perieres (Perieres assigned Carnasium as a place for Melaneus to dwell.) “Perieres assigned to him Carnasium to dwell in”
• parent: Apollo “Melaneus, a skilful archer and for that reason thought to be the son of Apollo”

Book 4 · Chapter 3

• child: Eurytus “Eurytus the son of Melaneus”

Book 4 · Chapter 33

• child: Eurytus (Melaneus was Eurytus's father.) “the remains of Eurytus the son of Melaneus are kept”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.