Melanthius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Μελάνθιος). 1. A goat-herd of Odysseus. 2. An Athenian tragic poet attacked by Aristophanes ( Pax, 796, and elsewhere). 3. A Greek painter of the Sicyonian School, contemporary with Apelles (B.C. 332), with whom he studied under Pamphilus (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 50).

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