person
Melampus
also: Μελάμπους
A wealthy seer of Pylos, ancestor of Theoclymenus; imprisoned a year by Phylacus for attempting to steal Iphicles's cattle as Pero's bride-price (Book 11), he escaped, drove off the cattle, and founded a line of prophets at Argos.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §15.222 Melampus
A wealthy Pylian seer, ancestor of Theoclymenus, remembered here for his year's imprisonment by Phylacus over a bride-price cattle-theft (told fully in Book 11) and his founding of a line of prophets at Argos.