Melanaegis

"Black-Shielded." I.e. armed or clad with a black aegis, occurred as a surname of Dionysus at Eleutherae,1 and at Athens,2 and of the Erinyes.3

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References

Notes

  1. Suidas, s.v. Ἐλεύθερος; Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 38.8.
  2. Suidas, s.v. Ἀπατούρια; Conon. Narratives, 39; Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 35.1.
  3. Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes, 700.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.