Melanthios
mythological figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 13 anchored passages
the goatherd · Melanthios son of Dolios · Melanthios the goatherd · the goatherd Melanthios
in the texts
Odyssey
The disloyal goatherd who insults and kicks the disguised Odysseus on the road and later sits favored among the suitors.
I wish I were as sure that Apollo would strike Telemakhos dead this very day, or that the suitors would kill him, as I am that Odysseus will never come home again.
Here Melanthios son of Dolios overtook them as he was driving down some goats, the best in his flock, for the suitors’ dinner, and there were two shepherds with him.
whereon the goatherd Melanthios said, "Suitors of my noble mistress, I can tell you something about him, for I have seen him before.