person
Melanthius
also: Μελάνθιος, Μελανθεύς
Odysseus's disloyal goatherd, son of Dolius, who abuses Odysseus and Eumaeus on the road and sides with the suitors; he is mutilated and killed in Book 22.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §17.197 Melantheus, son of Dolius
Odysseus's disloyal goatherd, who abuses him and Eumaeus on the road to town and sides fully with the suitors.