Megapenthes (son of Menelaus)

Megapenthes ( Greek  Μεγαπένθης ) is in Greek mythology the son of Menelaus and the Etholian slave Pieris or Tereis, who was born during the Trojan War .

Menelaus arranged a wedding between Megapenthes and Iphiloche, a daughter of Alector from Sparta . After Menelaus' death, he and his brother Nikostratos are said to have expelled Helena , who then fled to Polyxo in Rhodes .

Since Megapenthes, as the son of a slave, did not appear worthy to ascend the throne of Lacedaemon , Orestes , the son of Agamemnon , was made king.

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus , 3, 133.
• Homer , Odyssey , 4, 11; 15, 100.
• Pausanias , travels in Greece , 2, 18, 6; 3, 18, 3; 3, 19, 9.

literature

• Schirmer: Megapenthes 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2542 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Megapenthes in the Greek Myth Index (English)