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    Hippomenes (redirect from Melanion)
    mythology, Hippomenes (/hɪˈpɒmɪniːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἱππομένης), also known as Melanion (/məˈlæniən/; Μελανίων or Μειλανίων), was a son of the Arcadian Amphidamas...
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  • Greek mythology, Melanion (/məˈlæniən/; Ancient Greek: Μελανίων) or Meilanion (Μειλανίων) may refer to two distinct characters: Melanion, the Lacedaemonian...
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    huntress named Atalanta who raced against a suitor named Melanion, also known as Hippomenes. Melanion used golden apples to distract Atalanta so that he could...
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    Miletus melanion is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found on the Philippines. Miletus melanion melanion (Philippines) Miletus melanion euphranor...
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    to stay a virgin. Generally thus named in antiquity, but also known as Melanion. "Aelian: Various Histories. Book XIII, Ch. 1". penelope.uchicago.edu....
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  • Mecometopus melanion is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1885. Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the...
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    attempt to avoid marriage. She outran all but Hippomenes (also known as Melanion, a name possibly derived from melon, the Greek word for both "apple" and...
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    approval by the Old Women in response to the Old Men's favourable mention of Melanion, a legendary misogynist Orsilochus and Pellene: An Athenian pimp and a...
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  • was of Arcadian descent as the daughter of Amphidamas and the sister of Melanion, husband of the heroine Atalanta. Together with her husband Eurystheus...
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    in an attempt to avoid marriage. She outran all but Hippomenes (a.k.a. Melanion, a name possibly derived from melon the Greek word for both "apple" and...
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