Melanippus
Greek · quartigod · heroic age · Recorded classification
Quartigod son of Theseus by Perigune (daughter of the brigand Sinis). The Plutarchan Perigune-and-asparagus aetiology (Theseus 8.2) explains the Carian Ioxidae ritual-prohibition against burning wild asparagus and rushes — the plants that had sheltered their ancestress Perigune from Theseus before her seduction. Through his son Ioxus, founding-figure of the Greek-colonial Carian Ioxidae clan: one of the Theseid-paternal lines that anchored Anatolian-Greek colonial-genealogy claims.
Parentage
- father: TheseusPlut. Theseus 8.2 (primary)
Powers
- Won the footrace at the Nemean games
Relations
- father: TheseusPlut. Theseus 8.2 (primary)
- mother: Perigune (daughter of the brigand Sinis whom Theseus killed at the Isthmus) · GreekPlut. Theseus 8.2 (primary)
- half sibling: HippolytusHalf-brother through their shared father Theseus.Apollod. Epit. 1.16; Plut. Theseus 8 (primary)
- half sibling: AcamasHalf-brother through their shared father Theseus.Apollod. Epit. 1.18; Plut. Theseus 8, 28 (primary)
- half sibling: DemophonHalf-brother through their shared father Theseus.Apollod. Epit. 1.18; Plut. Theseus 8, 28 (primary)
- father of: Ioxus (founder of the Carian Ioxidae clan) · GreekPlut. Theseus 8.3 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Plutarch, Theseus 8.2-3 (the Perigune-and-asparagus episode and the Ioxidae genealogy) (primary)
- parentage: Plut. Theseus 8.2 (primary)