Menesthius
Ancient Greek male name
Not to be confused with
Menestheus
or
Mnestheus
.
In
Greek mythology
, the name
Menesthius
[
pronunciation?
]
(
Ancient Greek
:
Μενέσθιος
) may refer to:
Menesthius, son of
Spercheus
and
Polydora
, daughter of
Perieres
[
1
]
or of
Peleus
and
Antigone
.
[
2
]
He was one of the
Myrmidonian
leaders in the
Trojan War
.
Menesthius, son of
Areithous
and
Phylomedusa
, from
Arnae
,
Boeotia
, killed by
Paris
in the Trojan War.
[
3
]
[
4
]
^
Apollodorus
, 3.13.4
^
Homer
,
Iliad
16.173 ff
^
Homer,
Iliad
7.8–10
^
Hesiod
,
Ehoiai
fr. 218 (fr. 27 in the
Loeb
edition, 1914) =
Scholia
on Homer,
Iliad
, 7. 9