Menestheus
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king of Athens during the Trojan War. He was set up as king by the twins Castor and Pollux when Theseus travelled to the Underworld after abducting their sister, Helen, and exiled Theseus from the city after his return.[1]
Family
Menestheus was the son of Peteus,[2] son of Orneus,[3] son of Erechtheus, one of the early kings of Athens. His mother was called Polyxene or Mnesimache.[4]
Mythology
Menestheus was one of the suitors of
Gelon, the dictator of Syracuse
.
Yet, further he is characterised as not valiant. When
Melos where he became king.[12]
When Menestheus died, Athens passed back to the family of Theseus, with Theseus' youngest son Demophon ascending to the throne.[13]
Eponym
- 4068 Menestheus, Jovian asteroid
Notes
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 1.23; Plutarch, Theseus 32.1 ff.; Pausanias, 1.17.5
- ^ Pausanias, 2.25.6; Plutarch, Theseus 32.1
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Orneiai
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.10.8
- Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.552
- ^ Herodotus, 7.161.3
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.327
- ^ Homer, Iliad 12.331 ff.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 12.314; Pausanias, 1.23.8
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 6.15b = Tzetzes on Lycophron, 911
- ^ Plutarch, Theseus 35.5
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Lives with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4
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