Melanippus

"With black horses." The son of Ares and Triteia. He founded the city of Triteia in Achaea and named it after his mother. The people of that town sacrificed to both Ares and Triteia. Others say that the founder of Triteia was Celbidas, who came from Cumae in the country of the Opici.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 22.6-9.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.