Melampode [2] , Melamp ( ancient Greek Μελάμπους [2] “black-legged”) - in ancient Greek mythology [3] [4] the son of tsar Iolk Amifon and Idomene (or Amifon and Aglaya [5] ), brother of Bianth . Either his mother, the Rhodope, threw him out on a high place, and his legs were burned, which is why he got the name [6] [7] . Priest who knew the language of animals. The first mortal was endowed with the gift of prophecy, the first to build temples in honor of Dionysus and to dilute wine with water.
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When he lived with the king Polyphonte, he nursed snake cubs and began to understand the language of birds [8] . The discoverer of treatment with herbs and cleansing. I met Apollo on the bank of Alpheus, and since then has become the best soothsayer.
Received from Philak as a gift a herd of cows, healing his son Iphicles . According to Homer, he lived in Pylos , then retired to Argos [9] .
He lived in Messenia, then healed the Argos women and began to live in Argos, receiving two thirds of the kingdom for himself and his brother. Having performed the cleansing of the virgins, he threw the drugs into the river Anigr, which acquired a foul smell from them [10] . The means of purification were thrown into the spring of Clitoria, whose waters are turned away from wine [11] . He married the daughter of the King of Argos Preta [12] . In another version, the king of Argos was called Anaxagoras , and Melampod married his sister Ifianir [13] . He had two sons: Antifata and Mantle .
Acquainted the Hellenes with the name of Dionysus , his cult and phallic processions [14] . According to Stafil, he first thought of mixing wine with water [15] . His appearance in Nonna takes Hera [16] .
The sanctuary Melampoda in Egosheny in Megaride [17] . Raise the altar to Athena in Tege. [18]
“As D. Frame showed [19] , in the myth about Melampode, the key issue is the return of the ” [20] .
Melampody ("black-legged") is the nickname of the Egyptians common to the classical era. Therefore, the stories that Melamp supposedly understood the language of birds and insects, most likely, are of Farkan, and not Aeolian origin. [21]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Lyubker F. Melampus // The Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities by Lubcker / ed. F. F. Zelinsky , L. A. Georgievsky , M. S. Kutorga, and others. - SPb. : Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy , 1885. - p. 848.
- ↑ 1 2 Melampus // Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities / ed.-comp. F. Lubker ; Edited by members of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy F. Gelbke , L. Georgievsky , F. Zelinsky , V. Kansky , M. Kutorgi and P. Nikitin . - SPb. 1885.
- ↑ Myths of the peoples of the world . Encyclopedia. In 2 volumes / Ed. Tokarev, S.A. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1991-92. - T. 2. - p. 132.
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodor . Mythological library I 9, 11-13; II 2, 2
- ↑ Diodorus Sicilian . Historical Library IV 68, 3
- ↑ Scholii to Theocritus. Idyll III 43
- ↑ Notes Century G. Borukhovich in the book. Apollodorus. Mythological Library / Translation, concluding article, notes, index V. G. Borukhovich . - L .: "Science", Leningrad branch, 1972. - p. 136.
- ↑ Hesiod . Great Eoi, fr.261 M.-U.
- ↑ Homer . Odyssey XV 225-241
- ↑ Pausanias . Description of Hellas V 5, 10; Strabo . Geography VIII 3, 19 (p. 346)
- ↑ Ovid . Metamorphosis XV 322-328
- ↑ Hesiod. The list of women, fr.37 M.-U .; Herodotus History IX 34
- ↑ Diodorus Sicilian . Historical Library IV 68, 5
- ↑ Herodotus . Story II 49
- ↑ Athenaeus . Feast of the Wise Men II 23, 45d
- ↑ Nonn . Acts of Dionysus XLVII 632
- ↑ Pausanias . Description of Hellas I 44, 5
- ↑ Pausanias . Description of Hellas VIII 47, 3
- ↑ Frame, Douglas. The Epic. - New Haven, 1978.
- ↑ Nagy, Gregory. Greek mythology and poetics = Greek Mythology and Poetics. - M .: Progress-Tradition, 2002. - p. 329. - 432 p. - ISBN 5-89826-122-2 .
- ↑ Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Myths of Ancient Greece . - Moskva: Progress, 1992. - p. 185. - 619 pages p. - ISBN 5010015870 , 9785010015879.
Literature
- Melampus // Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities / ed.-comp. F. Lubker ; Edited by members of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy F. Gelbke , L. Georgievsky , F. Zelinsky , V. Kansky , M. Kutorgi and P. Nikitin . - SPb. 1885.