Melissa

Family: Corinthian · Role: wife of Periander · First appears: Book 3 · §42–50

Life events

• Periander killed his wife Melissa.(Book 3 · §42–50)
  • With: Periander
  • “For after Periander had killed his wife Melissa”
• The Samians sheltered the Corcyrean boys at Artemis’s temple and prevented the Corinthians from taking them away.(Book 3 · §42–50 · 📍 Samos)
  • With: Procles
  • “the Samians, being informed of the story and for what purpose they were being conducted to Sardis, first instructed the boys to lay hold of the temple of Artemis, and then they refused to permit the Corinthians to drag the suppliants away from the temple:”
• The Samians returned the Corcyrean boys to Corcyra after the Corinthians left.(Book 3 · §42–50 · 📍 Corcyra)
  • With: Procles
  • “and as for the boys, the Samians carried them back to Corcyra.”
• Melissa's apparition refused to reveal where the deposit was, saying she was cold and had no clothes.(Book 5 · §93–94 · 📍 the river Acheron)
  • With: Periander
  • “Melissa appeared and said she would not tell in what place the deposit was laid, for she was cold and had no clothes”
• Melissa's apparition revealed where Periander's guest-friend had entrusted the deposit.(Book 5 · §93–94)
  • With: Periander
  • “Then after he had done this and had sent a second time, the apparition of Melissa told him in what spot he had laid the deposit entrusted to him by his guest-friend.”

Book 3 · §42–50

• married with Periander (Melissa is identified as Periander's wife.) “For after Periander had killed his wife Melissa, it chanced to him to experience another misfortune in addition to that which had happened to him already, and this was as follows:—He had by Melissa two sons, the one of seventeen and the other of eighteen years.”
• parent: Procles (Procles is Melissa's father.) “These sons their mother's father Procles, who was despot of Epidauros, sent for to himself and kindly entertained, as was to be expected seeing that they were the sons of his own daughter;”
• child: Lycophron (Lycophron is named as the younger of Periander and Melissa's sons in the following sentence.) “He had by Melissa two sons, the one of seventeen and the other of eighteen years.”

Book 5 · §93–94

• married with Periander “And in one day he stripped all the wives of the Corinthians of their clothing on account of his own wife Melissa.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.