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Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.</div></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Menesthius" title="Menesthius">Menesthius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mnestheus" title="Mnestheus">Mnestheus</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Menestheus_(mythology)" title="Menestheus (mythology)">Menestheus (mythology)</a>.</div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, <b>Menestheus</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/θ/: 'th' in 'thigh'">θ</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>: Μενεσθεύς) was a legendary <a href="/wiki/King_of_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Athens">king of Athens</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>. He was set up as king by the twins <a href="/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux" title="Castor and Pollux">Castor and Pollux</a> when <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a> travelled to the Underworld after abducting their sister, <a href="/wiki/Helen_of_Troy" title="Helen of Troy">Helen</a>, and exiled Theseus from the city after his return.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2></div> <p>Menestheus was the son of <a href="/wiki/Peteus" title="Peteus">Peteus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> son of <a href="/wiki/Orneus" title="Orneus">Orneus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> son of <a href="/wiki/Erechtheus" title="Erechtheus">Erechtheus</a>, one of the early kings of Athens. His mother was called <a href="/w/index.php?title=Polyxena_(mythology)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polyxena (mythology) (page does not exist)">Polyxene</a> or <a href="/wiki/Mnesimache" title="Mnesimache">Mnesimache</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2></div> <p>Menestheus was one of the suitors of <a href="/wiki/Helen_of_Troy" title="Helen of Troy">Helen of Troy</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and when the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a> started he brought "fifty black ships" to <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a>,</i> it is noted that no one could arrange chariots and shield-bearing warriors in battle orders better than Menestheus, and that only <a href="/wiki/Nestor_(mythology)" title="Nestor (mythology)">Nestor</a> could vie with him in that respect.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, he is referred to as 'the best man to go to Troy and to draw up and marshal the troops'<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by the Athenian sent to request aid from <a href="/wiki/Gelo" class="mw-redirect" title="Gelo">Gelon</a>, the dictator of <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily" title="Syracuse, Sicily">Syracuse</a>. </p><p>Yet, further, he is characterised as not valiant. When <a href="/wiki/Agamemnon" title="Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a> was reviewing his troops he found Menestheus in the back rows seemingly avoiding action.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, when <a href="/wiki/Sarpedon_(Trojan_War_hero)" title="Sarpedon (Trojan War hero)">Sarpedon</a> attacked the portion of the Greek wall that he was in charge of, Menestheus shivered and had to call on <a href="/wiki/Telamonian_Ajax" class="mw-redirect" title="Telamonian Ajax">Telamonian Ajax</a> and <a href="/wiki/Teucer" title="Teucer">Teucer</a> for aid.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Menestheus was one of the warriors in the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_Horse" title="Trojan Horse">Trojan Horse</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Troy was sacked, he sailed to <a href="/wiki/Karaburun" title="Karaburun">Mimas</a>, then to <a href="/wiki/Melos" class="mw-redirect" title="Melos">Melos</a> where he became king.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Menestheus died, Athens passed back to the family of <a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a>, with Theseus' youngest son Demophon ascending to the throne.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ACE777;">Regnal titles </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Theseus" title="Theseus">Theseus</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/King_of_Athens" class="mw-redirect" title="King of Athens">King of Athens</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Demophon_(King_of_Athens)" class="mw-redirect" title="Demophon (King of Athens)">Demophon</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Eponym">Eponym</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/4068_Menestheus" title="4068 Menestheus">4068 Menestheus</a>, Jovian asteroid</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epitome" title="Epitome">Epitome</a> 1.23; <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Theseus</i> 32.1 ff.; <a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, 1.17.5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pausanias, 2.25.6; <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, <i>Theseus</i> 32.1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus of Byzantium</a>, s.v. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/241#O496.5">Orneiai</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFTzetzes,_John2015" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Tzetzes" class="mw-redirect" title="Tzetzes">Tzetzes, John</a> (2015). <i>Allegories of the Iliad</i>. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 43, Prologue 554-555. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-96785-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-674-96785-4"><bdi>978-0-674-96785-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Allegories+of+the+Iliad&rft.place=Harvard+University+Press%2C+Cambridge%2C+Massachusetts%2C+London%2C+England&rft.pages=43%2C+Prologue+554-555&rft.pub=Dumbarton+Oaks+Medieval+Library&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-0-674-96785-4&rft.au=Tzetzes%2C+John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMenestheus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, 3.10.8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> 2.557; <a href="/wiki/Hyginus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <i>Fabulae</i> 97</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 2.552</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, 7.161.3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 4.327</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Homer, <i>Iliad</i> 12.331 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Smyrnaeus" title="Quintus Smyrnaeus">Quintus Smyrnaeus</a>, 12.314; Pausanias, 1.23.8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apollodorus, Epitome 6.15b = <a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">Tzetzes</a> on <a href="/wiki/Lycophron" title="Lycophron">Lycophron</a>, 911</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Plutarch, <i>Theseus</i> 35.5</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Apollodorus</a>, <i>The Library</i> 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. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021">Greek text available from the same website</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, <i>The Histories</i> with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-99133-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-99133-8">0-674-99133-8</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/22">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0125">Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad"><i>The Iliad</i></a> with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0674995796" title="Special:BookSources/978-0674995796">978-0674995796</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Homer, <i>Homeri Opera</i> in five volumes. 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William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0067">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0075">Greek text available from the same website</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <i>Description of Greece</i> with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. 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London: William Heinemann, 1913. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html">Online version at theio.com</a></li> <li>Quintus Smyrnaeus, <i>The Fall of Troy</i>. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tzetzes" title="John Tzetzes">Tzetzes, John</a>, <i>Allegories of the Iliad</i> translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. 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