Nicostratus
Family: Heræa · Role: son of Menelaus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 18
Nicostratus was described as a son of Menelaus by a bondmaid, alongside Megapenthes; the sons of Tyndareus’ daughters were said to have a better claim to the kingdom. After Menelaus died, while Orestes was still travelling, Nicostratus and Megapenthes drove Helen away, and she went to Rhodes.
In Heræa, Nicostratus was also identified as a wrestling boy and the son of Xenoclidas. Pantias was named as his wrestling teacher, six intermediate links removed from Aristocles the Sicyonian.
Relationship record
Life events
- Nicostratus and Megapenthes drive Helen away, and she goes to Rhodes.(Book 3 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Rhodes)
- With: Helen Megapenthes (son of Menelaus)
- “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”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- parent: Xenoclidas “a wrestling boy from Heræa in Arcadia, Nicostratus the son of Xenoclidas.”
- with Pantias (interaction) “It is by Pantias”
- with Pantias (interaction) “It is by Pantias, who by six intermediate links was a pupil of Aristocles the Sicyonian.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.