Melanthius
(
Μελάνθιος).
1.
A goat-herd of Odysseus.
2.
An Athenian tragic poet attacked by Aristophanes (
Pax, 796, and elsewhere).
3.
A Greek painter of the Sicyonian School, contemporary with Apelles (B.C. 332), with whom he
studied under Pamphilus (Pliny ,
Pliny H. N. xxxv.
50).