Melanippus (lover of Comætho)

Also known as: Melanippus · Role: lover of Comætho · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 19

Life events

Melanippus and Comætho consummated their love in Artemis’s temple, making it their bridal chamber.(Book 7 · Chapter 19 · 📍 temple of Artemis Triclaria)
- With: Comætho
- “Melanippus and Comætho satisfied their ardent love in the very temple of Artemis, and afterwards made the temple habitually their bridal-chamber.”
Artemis’s wrath brought famine, illness, and unusually high mortality upon the country.(Book 7 · Chapter 19)
- With: Artemis Comætho
- “And forthwith the wrath of Artemis came on the people of the country, their land yielded no fruit, and unusual sicknesses came upon the people, and the mortality was much greater than usual.”
The oracle ordered annual sacrifices of the most handsome maiden and lad to Artemis.(Book 7 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Artemis Comætho
- “the oracle ordered them to sacrifice to Artemis annually the most handsome maiden and lad.”

courtship with Comætho “And as Melanippus won the maiden’s love as well, he asked her in marriage of her father.”
with Artemis (Melanippus violated Artemis Triclaria's temple with Comætho.) “for Melanippus and Comætho satisfied their ardent love in the very temple of Artemis”

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