Menestratus

Role: lover of Cleostratus · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 26

Life events

• Cleostratus sacrifices himself and kills the dragon using Menestratus’s hooked breastplate.(Book 9 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Thespia)
  • With: Cleostratus
  • “He made for him a brazen breastplate with a hook on each of its plates bent in, and Cleostratus armed with this cheerfully gave himself up to the dragon, for he knew that though he would perish himself he would also kill the monster.”

Book 9 · Chapter 26

• courtship with Cleostratus “for Cleostratus the last victim they say his lover Menestratus invented the following contrivance.”
• with Cleostratus (Menestratus made a breastplate for Cleostratus.) “He made for him a brazen breastplate with a hook on each of its plates bent in”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.