Menestheus (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Menestheus (; Ancient Greek: Μενεσθεύς) may refer to the following people:

• Menestheus, an Athenian youth from Sounion who was sacrificed to the Minotaur.^[1]
• Menestheus, a warrior in the army of the Seven against Thebes, participant of the disk-throwing competition at the funeral games of Opheltes.^[2]
• Menestheus, king of Athens who participated in the siege of Troy.^[3]
• Menestheus, son of Clytius and grandson of Aeolus, a companion of Aeneas.^[4]
• Menestheus, son of Iphicrates who named his son after the legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War.^[5]
• Menestheus, a Thespian who sacrificed himself using a spiked breastplate to slay a serpent.^[6]

Notes

1. [Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]
2. [Statius]
3. [Apollodorus of Athens|Apollodorus]
4. Virgil, Aeneid 10.129
5. Book: Sears, Matthew A.. Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership. March 2013. Cambridge University Press. 978-1107030534. 65.
6. Web site: Drakon Thespiakos . April 20, 2024 . Theoi Project.

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.