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MELAMPUS , in Greek legend, a celebrated seer and physician, son of Amythaon and Eidomene, brother of Bias, mythical eponymous hero of the family of the Melampodidae. Two young
Neleus
marriage
undertook to obtain possession of the oxen of the Thessalian prince Iphiclus. As Melampus had foretold, he was caught and imprisoned, but was released by Phylacus (the father of Iphiclus) on giving proof of his powers of divination, and was finally presented with the oxen as a reward for having restored the virility of the son. Melampus subsequently obtained a share in the kingdom of Argos in return for having cured the daughters of its king Proetus, who had been driven mad for offering resistance to the worship of Dionysus or for stealing the gold from the statue of Hera. At Aegosthena in Megara there was a sanctuary of Melampus, and an annual festival was held in his honour. According to Herodotus, he introduced the cult of Dionysus into Greece from Egypt, and his name (" black foot ") is probably " a symbolical expression of his character as a Bacchic propitiatory priest and seer " (Preller ). According to the traditional explanation, he was so called from his foot having been tanned by exposure to the sun when a boy. In his character of physician, he was the reputed discoverer of the herb melampodium, a kind of hellebore
See Apollodorus i. 9, II, 12; H. 2, 2; Odyssey, xv. 225240; Diod. Sic. iv. 68; Herodotus ii. 49; ix. 34; Pausanias H. 18, 4; iv. 36, 3; scholiast on Theocritus iii. 43; Ovid, Metam. xv. 325; C. Eckermann, Melampus and win Geschlecht (1840). Melampus is also the name of the author of a short extant treatise of little value on Divination by means of Palpitation (IIaX is v) and Birthmarks ('EXa_%w). It probably dates
Ptolemy
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