previous next

Melanippa

mother of Boeotus and Aeolus by Posidon (Neptune); blinded and imprisoned by her father, she was at last rescued by her sons and her sight was restored by Posidon; subject of a tragedy of Ennius, 1.114.

Quintus Caecilius Metellus [p. 417] Macedonicus, won his surname by his victories over Andriscus (148); a political rival and yet a good friend of the younger Scipio, 1.87.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
148 BC (1)
hide References (2 total)
  • Cross-references in indexes from this page (2):
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.114
    • Cicero, De Officiis, 1.87
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: