Menoitius (son of the actor)

Menoitios ( Greek  Μενοίτιος "destroyed strength", Latinized Menoetius ) is in Greek mythology a son of the actor and Aigina and lives in the Locrian opus . He is the father of Patroclus , Achilles' companion .

Menoitios takes part in the Argonauts voyage. He is a friend of Heracles and founds his cult in Opus.

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• Homer Iliad 11,771; ; 11, 765ff; 18, 325; 23, 83ff.
• Pindar Olympia 9, 69f.
• Apollonios of Rhodes Argonautika 1, 69f.
• Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 16
• Diodor Library 4, 39, 1

literature

• Konrad Seeliger : Menoitios 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2795-2798 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Keyßner: Menoitios 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XV, 1, Stuttgart 1931, Col. 919-921.
• Jan Stenger: Menoitios 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 1248 f.