Megapenthes (son of Menelaus)

Role: son of Menelaus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 18

Life events

• Nicostratus and Megapenthes drive Helen away, and she goes to Rhodes.(Book 3 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Rhodes)
  • With: Helen Nicostratus
  • “say that Helen after the death of Menelaus, while Orestes was still on his travels, was driven away by Nicostratus and Megapenthes and went to Rhodes”

Book 2 · Chapter 18

• parent: Menelaus “the sons of Tyndareus’ daughters better entitled to the kingdom than Nicostratus and Megapenthes, the sons of Menelaus by a bondmaid”

Book 3 · Chapter 19

• with Helen (interaction) “Helen after the death of Menelaus, while Orestes was still on his travels, was driven away by Nicostratus and Megapenthes”

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