# Melaeneus

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In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), **Melaeneus** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Μελαινέα) was an [Arcadian](/source/Arcadia_(region)) prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King [Lycaon](/source/Lycaon_of_Arcadia) either by the [naiad](/source/Naiad) [Cyllene](/source/Cyllene_(mythology)),[1] [Nonacris](/source/Nonacris_(mythology))[2] or by unknown woman. He was the possible founder of the Arcadian deme of [Melaenae](/source/Melaenae).[3]

## Mythology

Melaeneus and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, [Zeus](/source/Zeus) visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Melaeneus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[4]

## Notes

1. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus](/source/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus), *Antiquitates Romanae* 1.13.1

1. [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), [8.17.6](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.17.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Nonacris)

1. Pausanias, 8.3.3

1. [Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), [3.8.1](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.8.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=8&highlight=Carteron)

## References

- [Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), *The Library* with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022) [Greek text available from the same website](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021).
- [Dionysus of Halicarnassus](/source/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus), *Roman Antiquities.* English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. [Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/home.html)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, *Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt*, *Vol I-IV*. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. [Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0572).
- [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), *Description of Greece* with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160)
- Pausanias, *Graeciae Descriptio.* *3 vols*. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159).

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