Menestheus

A son of Peteus, an Athenian king, who led the Athenians against Troy, and surpassed all other mortals in arranging the war-steeds and men for battle.1 With the assistance of the Tyndarids, he is said to have driven Theseus from his kingdom, and to have died at Troy.2

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad ii, 552 ff.; iv, 327; Philostratus. Heroicus ii, 16; Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 25.6.
  2. Plutarch. Theseus, 32, 35; Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 17.6

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.