Sthenelus

A son of Perseus and Andromeda, and husband of Nicippe, by whom he became the father of Alcinoe, Medusa, and Eurystheus. He was slain by Hyllus, the son of Heracles.1

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References

Notes

  1. Hyginus. Fabulae, 244.

Sources

  • Homer. Iliad xix, 116.
  • Ovid. Heroides ix, 25; Metamorphoses ix, 273.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 4.5 ff.
  • 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.