In one version, when her father discovered her pregnancy, he handed her over to a man from Metapontium, who was childless and adopted her sons as his own.
When the boys grew up, a civil war began in Metapontium and they seized the kingship.
[4] In another version of Melanippe's story, when her father discovered that she had given birth to twins, he blinded her, shut her in a prison and ordered that the babies be exposed.
They were subsequently rescued by shepherds, who later gave them to Theano, wife of King Metapontus of Icaria, as she was looking for a baby to present to her husband as her own, fearing that he would expel her if she had no children to him.
So when they grew up, Theano instructed her natural sons to kill Aeolus and Boeotus during hunt.