Odyssey

Homer

Homer's Phrontis son of Onetor is Menelaus' steersman who dies at the cape of Sunium as the Spartan king races home — Apollo's arrow ending the best helmsman of the nostoi.

Phrontis

Helmsman of Menelaus — carefully distinct from Phrontis son of Phrixus; the Spartan steersman buried where Attica meets the sea.

Sounion

Cape Sunium where Phrontis falls and Menelaus buries him — the Attic headland of Poseidon's temple still marking the helmsman's death.

Menelaus

Phrontis' king — the Atreid who loses his steersman at Sunium before the long Egyptian wanderings of his nostos.