Agasthenes (King of Elis)

Agasthenes ( Greek  Ἀγασθένης ) was in Greek mythology the son of Augias and his successor on the throne of the kingdom of Elis in the Peloponnese . The rule was divided between Amphimachus , Thalpios and Agasthenes. With his wife Peloris he had the son Polyxenus , who was one of Helena's suitors and therefore took part in the Trojan War . After returning from Troy , he reunited the kingdom.

literature

• Georg Knaack : Agasthenes . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 737.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pausanias , Description of Greece 5, 3, 3.
2. ↑ Homer , Iliad 2, 624; Hyginus , Fabulae 97; Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 10, 8, 2.