In Greek mythology, Melantheia or Melanthea () is the name of several figures:
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Melantheia, the daughter of Deucalion. According to a scholia on Euripides's Orestes, she was the mother of Melainis by Hyamus.
[ RE, s.v. Melantheia.]
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Melantheia, the daughter of the river-god Alpheus.
[ RE, s.v. Melantheia.] According to Plutarch's Greek Questions, she was, by Poseidon, the mother of Eirene, after whom the island of Kalaureia was once known by the same name.[Plutarch, Moralia 295E (Babbitt, pp. 198–199).]
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Plutarch, Moralia, Volume IV: Roman Questions. Greek Questions. Greek and Roman Parallel Stories. On the Fortune of the Romans. On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander. Were the Athenians More Famous in War or in Wisdom?, translated by Frank Cole Babbitt, Loeb Classical Library No. 305, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1936. . Harvard University Press.
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Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XV, Halbband 1, edited by Wilhelm Kroll, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1931. Wikisource.
