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Menesthius

In Greek mythology, the name Menesthius may refer to:Menesthius, son of Spercheus and Polydora, daughter of Perieres or of Peleus and Antigone. 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.

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In Greek mythology, the name Menesthius (Ancient Greek: Μενέσθιος) may refer to:

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  1. Apollodorus, 3.13.4
  2. Homer, Iliad 16.173 ff
  3. Homer, Iliad 7.8–10
  4. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 218 (fr. 27 in the Loeb edition, 1914) = Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 7. 9
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