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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1016 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Pausanias, the conqueror of Xanthus was An- dropompus, the father of Melanthus ; according to Aristotle, it was Codrus, his son.
		To the period of the reign of Melanthus Pausanias refers the ex pulsion of the lonians from Aegialus by the Achaeans, and their settlement at Athens as a place of refuge.
		A son of Phrixus and Chalciope, was married to Eurycleia, by whom he became the father of Hyperes.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2124.html (1012 words)

	Athens
		His father Melanthus, a descendant of Neleus, king of Pylos in Messenia (the father of Nestor), settled in Attica after being ousted from Pylos by the Heraclidæ.
		The king of Athens at the time, a descendant of Theseus named Thymoetes, offered him his throne in reward for having volunteered to fight in single combat Xanthus, the king of Thebes to end a war between the two cities about the border city of Oenoe, and having defeated him.
		During his reign, the Peloponnesians waged war against Athens and were promised victory by the oracle of Delphi on condition that they not kill the king.
	www.plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/athens.htm (5201 words)

	Athens: Its Rise and Fall
		A dispute arose between the Boeotians and the Athenians respecting the confines of their several territories; it was proposed to decide the difference by a single combat between Thymaetes and the King of the Boeotians.
		A Messenian exile, named Melanthus, accepted it, slew his antagonist by a stratagem, and, deposing the cowardly Athenian, obtained the sovereignty of Athens.
		With Melanthus, who was of the race of Nestor, passed into Athens two nobles of the same house, Paeon and Alcmaeon, who were the founders of the Paeonids and Alcmaeonids, two powerful fami
	manybooks.net /pages/bulwerlyetext04b014w10/87.html (344 words)

	Plutarch's Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And accordingly Aratus, when he freed the city, immediately took down the representations of the rest of the tyrants, but demurred a long time about that of Aristratus, who flourished in the time of Philip.
		For this Aristratus was painted by Melanthus and his scholars, standing by a chariot, in which a figure of Victory was carried, Apelles himself having had a hand in it, as Polemon the geographer reports.
		It was an extraordinary piece, and therefore Aratus was fain to spare it for the workmanship, and yet, instigated by the hatred he bore the tyrants, commanded it to be taken down.
	www.manybooks.net /pages/plutarchetext96plivs10/1964.html (210 words)

	II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Supposedly two early kings were faced off in single combat, Athenian Melanthus (“dark”) against Boeotian Xanthus (fair”).
		Melanthus saw a figure wearing a fl goatskin appear behind Xanthus, and by drawing attention to this, gained the advantage and slew his opponent.
		Later it was explained that the apparition had been the god Dionysos, who thereafter gained the epithet Melainaigis – he of the fl goat skin.
	home.earthlink.net /%7Edelia5/pagan/dio/grcc-tp-dnyscult-1-with-references.htm (3558 words)

	Eusebius: Chronicle (1) - translation
		Melanthus of Pylus, the son of Andropompus, for 37 years.
		Codrus, the son of Melanthus, for 21 years.
		In his reign, the Ionians were driven out of Achaea, and took refuge in Athens.
	www.attalus.org /translate/eusebius1.html (7195 words)

	APATURIA ('Airarobpea) - Online Information article about APATURIA ('Airarobpea)
		commemoration of a single combat between a certain Melanthus, representing See also:
		King Thymoetes of Attica, and King See also:
		Boeotia, in which Melanthus successfully threw his adversary off his guard by crying that a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ANC_APO/APATURIA_Airarobpea_.html (551 words)

	Re: Waterman genealogy
		Beuhla Blanche is my wifes Great aunt, and I have a photograph of her here.
		Melanthus Russell Waterman is my wifes Great Grandfather and he is buried here in N,West Iowa in a small town of Marathon, Iowa.
		I am interested in information on Melanthus father Hiram and his wife also, and beyond.
	www.genealogyboard.com /waterman/messages/997.html (94 words)

	Greek Travelogue - Pergamon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Androclus was the grandson of Melanthus, a legendary king of Athens.
		To become king, Melanthus had killed Thymoites, the last descendant of Theseus.
		[18] Melanthus was succeeded by his son Codrus and Codrus’ son was Androclus who lead the expedition to Ionia and founded Greek Ephesus in 1087 BC.
	greek-myth.com /Pale_Horse/pergamon.htm (6485 words)

	AMAZONS, Greek Mythology Link.
		But since some towns are founded several times, there is also one Ephesus, son of the river god Cayster, who is said to have founded the city that bears his name.
		Otherwise the foundation of Ephesus is attributed to Androclus, son of King Codrus 1 of Athens, son of Melanthus 1, son of Andropompus 1, son of Borus 3, son of Penthilus 2, son of Periclymenus 1, son of Neleus and brother of Nestor.
		Now, Androclus was one of those who colonized Ionia, and his time could be estimated to 1020 BC aproximately (ca.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/AMAZONS.html (1537 words)

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		Melanthus W. Jacobus to Clarence Pickett, March 30, 1915, Kelly Student File.
		Thomas Kelly to Melanthus W. Jacobus, May 30, 1915, Kelly Student File.
		Melanthus W. Jacobus to Thomas Kelly, May 15, 1915, Kelly Student File; Richard M. Kelly, Thomas Kelly; A Biography, 26 27.
	home.interhop.net /aschrauwe/Kyle2.html (3062 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Pausanias: Description of Greece, Book I: Attica
		By other means also has the report spread among men that Theseus bestowed sovereignty upon the people, and that from his time they continued under a democratical government, until Peisistratus rose up and became despot.
		The Athenians hold that the Ilisus is sacred to other deities as well, and on its bank is an altar of the Ilisian Muses.
		The place too is pointed out where the Peloponnesians killed Codrus, son of Melanthus and king of Athens.[1.19.6] Across the Ilisus is a district called Agrae and a temple of Artemis Agrotera (the Huntress).
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/pausanias-bk1.html (19483 words)

	Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars (Hobbes trans.) vol. 2: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Eubœans Whilst they were on both sides doing thus1, there came unto Agis about their revolt from the Athenians, first the ambassadors of the Eubœans.
		Accepting the motion, he sent for Alcamenes the son of Sthenelaidas and for Melanthus from Lacedæmon, to go commanders into Eubœa.
		Whom, when he1 was come to him with about three hundred freedmen, he was now about to send over.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Hobbes0123/Works/HTMLs/Vol09/0051_09_Pt04_Book8.html (11237 words)

	Syntomeida
		Syntomeida melanthus, The Moths of Southeastern Arizona [Bruce Walsh]
		Syntomeida melanthus, Lepidoptera of French Antilles [Pierre Zagatti]
		Syntomeida melanthus, Moths of North America (distribution map) [USGS]
	www.funet.com /pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/ctenuchinae/syntomeida/index.html (179 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume II, Number 4
		I hope to pursue this matter at greater length elsewhere.
		In a chapter about the Apaturia and admission to the phratry Lambert is wisely sceptical about Vidal-Naquet's interpretation of the anti-hoplite Melanthus as a model for the Athenian epheboi.
		Phratries, like demes and other corporations of citizens, owned, leased and sold landed property, in particular lending money to members against the security of a fictitious sale (
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V2N4/rhodes.html (955 words)

	The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides eBook by BookRags
		While both parties were thus engaged, and were as intent upon preparing for the war as they had been at the outset, the Euboeans first of all sent envoys during this winter to Agis to treat of their revolting from Athens.
		Agis accepted their proposals, and sent for Alcamenes, son of Sthenelaidas, and Melanthus from Lacedaemon, to take the command in Euboea.
		These accordingly arrived with some three hundred Neodamodes, and Agis began to arrange for their crossing over.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/7142/352.html (223 words)

	Text - Pheidias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These heroes gave names, in obedience to a Delphic oracle, to tribes at Athens.
		Codrus, however, the son of Melanthus, Theseus, and Neleus, these are not givers of names to tribes.
		The statues enumerated were made by Pheidias, and really are a tithe of the spoils of the battle.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~fvankeur/classical/ancient/text28.html (176 words)

	Chronology of Greek Mythology
		1129 Xanthus the last king of Thebes is killed in a duel with Andropompus or Melanthus who becomes king of Athens.
		1092 Codrus succeeds Melanthus as king of Athens.
		The Palasgians are expelled from Athens and flee to Lemons where they expel the Minyae.
	www.enthymia.co.uk /Myths2.htm (4330 words)

	paintingpoetry.html
		Thus, while preparing to sacrifice a bull on the altar of the god Poseidon (a task that had fallen to him by lot),
		and his twin sons, Antiphas and Thymbraeus (also called Melanthus), were crushed to death by two great sea serpents, Porces and Chariboea (or Curissia or Periboea), sent by Apollo.
		An additional reason for his punishment was that he had warned the Trojans against accepting the wooden horse left by the Greeks.
	theliterarylink.com /paintingpoetry.html (299 words)

	The History of Herodotus Chapter V
		Accordingly they soon afterwards left the country, and withdrew to Sigeum on the Scamander, after reigning thirty-six years over the Athenians.
		By descent they were Pylians, of the family of the Neleids, to which Codrus and Melanthus likewise belonged, men who in former times from foreign settlers became kings of Athens.
		And hence it was that Hippocrates came to think of calling his son Pisistratus: he named him after the Pisistratus who was a son of Nestor.
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	Book 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was at Miletus that these events took place.
		[1.147] The kings, too, whom they set over them, were either Lycians, of the blood of Glaucus, son of Hippolochus, or Pylian Caucons of the blood of Codrus, son of Melanthus; or else from both those families.
		But since these Ionians set more store by the name than any of the others, let them pass for the pure-bred Ionians; though truly all are Ionians who have their origin from Athens, and keep the Apaturia.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /Text/book1b.htm (14998 words)

	Diogenes Laertius, Life of Plato, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		And Solon traced his pedigree up to Neleus and Neptune.
		They say too that on the father's side, he was descended from Codrus, the son of Melanthus, and they too are said by Thrasylus to derive their origin from Neptune.
		And Plato was born, as Apollodorus says in his Chronicles, in the eighty-eighth Olympiad, on the seventh day of the month Thargelion, on which day the people of Delos say that Apollo also was born.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlplato.htm (11499 words)

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