Melampus and Bias were brothers, sons of Amythaon. They acted together in the cure of the Proetides, each receiving a third of the kingdom of Argos as reward.
Amphiaraus was a descendant of Melampus through the Melampodidae seer dynasty. He inherited Melampus's prophetic gift, becoming the greatest seer of the generation that marched against Thebes.
Melampus cured the Proetides of a madness inflicted by Dionysus. Herodotus credits Melampus with introducing the worship of Dionysus and phallic processions to Greece from Egypt.
Hera drove the daughters of Proetus mad for offending her, and Melampus cured their affliction through purification rites, winning a share of the Argive kingdom as his reward.
⚠ Hesiod's Catalogue of Women (fragment 37) attributes the Proetides' madness to Hera, while other traditions (Apollodorus 2.2.2) attribute it to Dionysus.
The seer Melampus cured Proetus's daughters of their divinely inflicted madness, demanding and receiving a third of the kingdom of Argos as payment.
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