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Melas

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Melas
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Individual
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Location presence

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Calydon1 observation
·Reported

Melas is one of the two named brothers reported to have abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon.

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“Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon”
Pleuron1 observation
·Reported

Melas is one of the two named brothers reported to have abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon.

See evidence text
“Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon”

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·Reported
“two of whom, Agrius and Melas”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 8

Then said Diomed, ‘Such an one is at hand; he is not far to seek, if you will listen to me and not resent my speaking though I am younger than any of you. I am by lineage son to a noble sire, Tydeus, who lies buried at Thebes. For Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon. The third was the knight Oeneus, my father’s father, and he was the most valiant of them all. Oeneus remained in his own country, but my father (as Jove and the other gods ordained it) migrated to Argos. He married into the family of Adrastus, and his house was one of great abundance, for he had large estates of rich corn-growing land, with much orchard ground as well, and he had many sheep; moreover he excelled all the Argives in the use of the spear. You must yourselves have heard whether these things are true or no; therefore when I say well despise not my words as though I were a coward or of ignoble birth. I say, then, let us go to the fight as we needs must, wounded though we be. When there, we may keep out of the battle and beyond the range of the spears lest we get fresh wounds in addition to what we have already, but we can spur on others, who have been indulging their spleen and holding aloof from battle hitherto.’