Thestius
- For the butterfly genus, see Thestius (butterfly).
In Greek mythology, Thestius (Θέστιος) was the son of either Ares and Demonice,[1] or Agenor (son of Pleuron son of Aetolus) and Epicasta.[2] He was the father of Iphicles with Leucippe,[3] or Deidameia, daughter of Perieres,[4] or else with Eurythemis, daughter of Cleoboea and mother of his other children, Althaea, Eurypylus, Evippus, Hypermnestra, Leda, Toxeus and Plexippus.[5] In one source though, the mother of Althaea and Leda is Laophonte, daughter of Pleuron[6].
Thestius was allied with Tyndareus and Icarius against Hippocoon.[7]
He is not to be confused with Thespius, who was sometimes referred to as "Thestius".[8]
The patronymic "Thestias" may refer to one of his daughters, Leda or Althaea,[9][10] and "Thestiades" to his son Iphicles.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 7. 7
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 13. 8
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 201
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 7. 10
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 146
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 10. 5
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 27. 7
- ^ Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 606
- ^ Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, 49
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 261
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