Menestheus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Menestheus (/mɪˈnɛsθiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Μενεσθεύς) may refer to the following people:
- Menestheus, an Athenian youth from Sounion who was sacrificed to the Minotaur.[1]
- Menestheus, a warrior in the army of the Seven against Thebes, participant of the disk-throwing competition at the funeral games of Opheltes.[2]
- Menestheus, king of Athens who participated in the siege of Troy.[3]
- Menestheus, son of Clytius and grandson of Aeolus, a companion of Aeneas.[4]
- Menestheus, son of Iphicrates who named his son after the legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War.[5]
- Menestheus, a Thespian who sacrificed himself using a spiked breastplate to slay a serpent.[6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Servius on Virgil, Aeneid 6.21
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 6.661
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 1.23
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 10.129
- ^ Sears, Matthew A. (March 2013). Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership. Cambridge University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-1107030534.
- ^ "Drakon Thespiakos". Theoi Project. Retrieved April 20, 2024.
References
[edit]- 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.
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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