1) Ancient Greek musician 
Melanippides of Melos (Μελανιππίδης), one of the most celebrated lyric poets in the department of the dithyramb, and an exponent of the `new music.` The date of Melanippides can only be fixed within rather uncertain limits. He may be said, somewhat to have flourished about the middle of the 5th-century BC. He was younger than Lasus o.....