Melampus

Role: seer and physician · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Melampus)

Life events

• Iphinoe died during the pursuit, while the remaining daughters later recovered and married.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 Sicyon)
  • With: Proetus Bias Iphinoe
  • “In the pursuit Iphinoe, the eldest of the daughters, expired; but the others were lucky enough to be purified and so to recover their wits. Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Amythaon “and there were born to him two sons, Bias and Melampus.”
• siblings with Bias “two sons, Bias and Melampus.”
• with Pero (interaction) “having received the daughter of Neleus he gave her to his brother.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.2

• parent: Idomene “But Melampus, son of Amythaon by Idomene, daughter of Abas, being a seer and the first to devise the cure by means of drugs and purifications,”
• married with Lysippe “In the pursuit Iphinoe, the eldest of the daughters, expired; but the others were lucky enough to be purified and so to recover their wits. Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias,”
• married with Iphianassa “In the pursuit Iphinoe, the eldest of the daughters, expired; but the others were lucky enough to be purified and so to recover their wits. Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias,”
• with Proetus (Melampus offered healing to Proetus in exchange for a share of sovereignty.) “But Melampus, son of Amythaon by Idomene, daughter of Abas, being a seer and the first to devise the cure by means of drugs and purifications, promised to cure the maidens if he should receive the third part of the sovereignty.”

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