person
Melantho
also: Μελανθώ
Daughter of Dolius, raised by Penelope like her own child but disloyal, the suitor Eurymachus's lover; she abuses the disguised Odysseus and is hanged with the other faithless maids in Book 22.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §18.320 Melantho of the fair cheeks
Dolius's daughter, raised by Penelope as her own but secretly Eurymachus's lover; she jeers at the disguised Odysseus and is hanged among the disloyal maids in Book 22.