Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Menestheus.
In play
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Iliad II (Catalogue of Ships)
Homer
Homer’s Menestheus — son of Peteos — leads fifty Athenian ships, unmatched in marshalling chariots and shield-men save Nestor alone. The Catalogue’s Athenian captain.
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Menestheus
King of Athens after Theseus’ exile in later myth — the Iliadic marshal who, in some tellings, holds the city until the Aeacids return.