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Melampus, the Glossary

In Greek mythology, Melampus (Μελάμπους, Melampous) was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos.^[1]

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Alcmaeon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Alcmaeon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκμαίων Alkmaíōn), as one of the Epigoni, was the leader of the Argives who attacked Thebes, taking the city in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven against Thebes, who died while attempting the same thing. Melampus and Alcmaeon (mythology) are mythology of Argos.

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Amphiaraus

In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus or Amphiaraos (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφιάραος, Ἀμφιάρεως, "very sacred") was the son of Oicles, a seer, and one of the leaders of the Seven against Thebes. Melampus and Amphiaraus are classical oracles, kings in Greek mythology, kings of Argos and mythological Greek seers.

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Amphilochus I of Argos

In Greek mythology, Amphilochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίλοχος Amphílokhos) was an Argive hero and one of the Epigoni. Melampus and Amphilochus I of Argos are kings of Argos.

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Amythaon

In Greek mythology, Amythaon (Ancient Greek: Ἀμυθάων, gen.: Ἀμυθάονος) was prince of Iolcus as the son of King Cretheus and Tyro, daughter of King Salmoneus of Elis.

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Anaxagoras (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Anaxagoras (Αναξαγόρας) was a king of Argos. Melampus and Anaxagoras (mythology) are kings of Argos.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Argos, Peloponnese

Argos (Άργος; Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe.

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Artemis

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity.

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Astrology

Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.

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Bias (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Bias (Βίας) may refer to the following characters.

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Ceiling

A ceiling is an overhead interior roof that covers the upper limits of a room.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Dedication (publishing)

A dedication or book dedication is the expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person.

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Dionysus

In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (Διόνυσος) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, and theatre.

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Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.

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Domestic worker

A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands.

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Ellobiidae

Ellobiidae, common name the hollow-shelled snails, is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.

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Erinyes

The Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς), also known as the Eumenides (commonly known in English as the Furies), are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology.

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Hamadryad

A hamadryad or hamadryas (Hamadryás, pl: Hamadryádes) is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Hesiod

Hesiod (or; Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.

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Legend

A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.

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Lunary

A lunary (from Latin lunarium), also called a selenodromion or moonbook, is a book of prognostication based on the position of the moon at any given time.

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Lusi (Arcadia)

Lusi or Lousoi (Λουσοί, Λοῦσοι, Λουσσοί, or τὰ Λοῦσσα) was a city in the Arcadian Azania toward the north of ancient Arcadia, originally independent of, but afterwards subject to, Cleitor.

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Mantius

In Greek mythology, Mantius (Ancient Greek: Μαντίος means "diviner, seer, prophet") was the son of Melampus and Iphianassa and the father of Cleitus, Polypheides and, in some versions, of Oicles.

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Maurice de Guérin

Georges-Maurice de Guérin (4 August 181019 July 1839) was a French poet.

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Melampodia

__notoc__ The "Melampodia" (Μελαμποδία) is a now fragmentary Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity.

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Midas

Midas (Μίδας) was the name of a king in Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house. Melampus and Midas are Deeds of Apollo and kings in Greek mythology.

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Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication.

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Muscle contraction

Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells.

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Neleus

Neleus (Ancient Greek: Νηλεύς) was a mythological king of Pylos. Melampus and Neleus are kings in Greek mythology.

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Nevus

Nevus (nevi) is a nonspecific medical term for a visible, circumscribed, chronic lesion of the skin or mucosa.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Oracle

An oracle is a person or thing considered to provide insight, wise counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD.

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Pero (princess)

In Greek mythology, Pero (Πηρώ) was a princess of Pylos.

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Phrygia

In classical antiquity, Phrygia (Φρυγία, Phrygía) was a kingdom in the west-central part of Anatolia, in what is now Asian Turkey, centered on the Sangarios River.

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Phylacus

In Greek mythology, Phylacus (Ancient Greek: Φύλακος means "guardian") was the name of the following figures.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Proetus

In Greek mythology, Proetus (Ancient Greek: Προῖτος Proitos) may refer to the following personages.

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Prophet

In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.

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Pseudepigrapha

Pseudepigrapha (also anglicized as "pseudepigraph" or "pseudepigraphs") are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.

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Ptolemy II Philadelphus

Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Ptolemaîos Philádelphos, "Ptolemy, sibling-lover"; 309 – 28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 284 to 246 BC.

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Pylos

Pylos (Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.

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Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles (September 11, 1933 – March 26, 2008) was an American translator, poet, and academic.

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Robert Graves

Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic.

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Serpent symbolism

The serpent, or snake, is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols.

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Seven against Thebes

The Seven against Thebes were seven champions in Greek mythology who made war on Thebes. Melampus and seven against Thebes are mythology of Argos.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Termite

Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus.

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In Greek mythology, Theoclymenus (Ancient Greek: Θεοκλύμενος) was a prophet from Argos. Melampus and Theoclymenus are mythological Greek seers and mythology of Argos.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melampus

Also known as Melampos, Melampous.

, Seven against Thebes, Snake, Termite, Theoclymenus, Trojan War, Vitruvius, Vulture, Walter Burkert.

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See also

Ancient Greek pseudepigrapha

Ancient Greek shamans

Cult of Dionysus

Greek mythology of Anatolia

Messenian characters in Greek mythology

Mythological Greek seers

Primordial teachers

References