Melanopus

Family: Athenians · Role: cavalry officer · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 29

Melanopus, an Athenian cavalry officer, died fighting the Lacedæmonians and Bœotians alongside Macartatus at the border of Eleonian and Tanagræan territory. In Book 5, Melanopus of Cumæ composed an ode to Opis and Hecaerges.

Relationship record

Life events

Melanopus and Macartatus died fighting the Lacedæmonians and Bœotians.(Book 1 · Chapter 29 · 📍 border of the Eleonian and Tanagræan territory)
- With: Macartatus
- “whose names are Melanopus and Macartatus, who met their death contending against the Lacedæmonians and Bœotians, at the border of the Eleonian and Tanagræan territory.”

Book 1 · Chapter 29

with Macartatus (They are represented as cavalry officers fighting together.) “a pillar with a representation of two cavalry officers fighting, whose names are Melanopus and Macartatus”

Book 5 · Chapter 7

with Opis (Melanopus composed an ode to Opis.) “when Melanopus of Cumæ composed an ode to Opis and Hecaerges”
with Hecaerges (Melanopus composed an ode to Hecaerges.) “when Melanopus of Cumæ composed an ode to Opis and Hecaerges”

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