Menestheus
mythological figure · 6 works · 9 mentions · 12 anchored passages
son of Peteos · Menestheus son of Peteos
in the texts
Iliad
Leader of the Athenian contingent, found tarrying and rebuked by Agamemnon for not joining the fight.
Agamemnon went his way rejoicing, and presently found Menestheus, son of Peteos, tarrying in his place, and with him were the Athenians loud of tongue in battle.
They went along inside the wall, and when they came to the tower where Menestheus was (and hard pressed indeed did they find him) the brave leaders and leaders of the Lycians were storming the battlements as it were a thick dark cloud, fighting in close quarters, and raising the battle-cry aloud.
Menestheus son of Peteos was dismayed when he saw them, for it was against his part of the wall that they came - bringing destruction with them;
Against Ctesiphon
Mythic Athenian leader at Troy, invoked in an inscription and through Homeric authority.
Once from this city Menestheus, summoned to join the Atreidae,
Led forth an army to Troy, plain beloved of the gods.
Homer has sung of his fame, and has said that of all the mailed chieftains
Against Macartatus
Relative of the speaker's wife whose name is used for one of the speaker's sons.
to the next after him I gave the name Menestheus, for Menestheus was a relative of my wife;
Letters
An Athenian named among the deceased friends of the people listed together with Lycurgus as champions the city has lost.
So, when it is possible for all to behold object-lessons of such a kind and on such a scale, from which everyone would conclude that it does not pay to espouse the cause of the people, I begin to fear that some day you may become destitute of men who will speak on your behalf, especially when of the friends of the people some are being taken away by man’s natural destiny, by accident, and by the l …
On the Treaty with Alexander
Commander appointed over the Athenian war-galleys in response to Macedonian interference with ships.
for they have grown so arrogant that they forced all our ships coming from the Black Sea to put in at Tenedos, and under one pretence or another refused to release them until you passed a decree to man and launch a hundred war-galleys instantly, and you put Menestheus in command.
Antidosis
A figure associated with campaign finances who was acquitted while Timotheus was fined.
Most of you are, I suppose, astonished at what I am saying, and think that in praising him I am condemning Athens, since he, after having captured so many cities and having never lost a single one, was tried for treason, and again when he submitted his reports, and Iphicrates took upon himself the responsibility for the conduct of the campaign and Menestheus accounted for the moneys expended upon …