Maenalus

Role: elder brother · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.8

Life events

• Lycaon and his sons slaughtered a native male child and mixed his bowels with the sacrifices.(Apollodorus, Library 3.8)
  • With: Lycaon
  • “They offered him hospitality and having slaughtered a male child of the natives, they mixed his bowels with the sacrifices, and set them before him, at the instigation of the elder brother Maenalus.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.8

• parent: Lycaon “fifty sons, to wit: Melaeneus, Thesprotus, Helix, Nyctimus, Peucetius, Caucon, Mecisteus, Hopleus, Macareus, Macednus, Horus, Polichus, Acontes, Evaemon, Ancyor, Archebates, Carteron, Aegaeon, Pallas, Eumon, Canethus, Prothous, Linus, Coretho, Maenalus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.9

• child: Atalanta “and Euripides says that she was a daughter of Maenalus”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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