Menestheus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.10

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Menestheus) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Menestheus)

Life events

• Menestheus drove Theseus away, and Lycomedes threw him into an abyss and killed him.(Apollodorus, Epitome 1)
  • With: Theseus Lycomedes
  • “Thence he was driven by Menestheus and went to Lycomedes, who threw him down an abyss and killed him.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• courtship with Helen “The wooers were these: — Ulysses, son of Laertes; Diomedes, son of Tydeus; Antilochus, son of Nestor; Agapenor, son of Ancaeus; Sthenelus, son of Capaneus; Amphimachus, son of Cteatus; Thalpius, son of Eurytus; Meges, son of Phyleus; Amphilochus, son of Amphiaraus; Menestheus, son of Peteos;”

Apollodorus, Epitome 1

• with Theseus (interaction) “Thence he was driven by Menestheus”
• enemies with Theseus “Thence he was driven by Menestheus”

Apollodorus, Epitome 6

• with Polyanax (interaction) “Then Menestheus went to Melos and reigned as king, because the king there, Polyanax, had died”

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