In Greek mythology, Aethiolas or Aithiolas was a Spartan prince as the son of King Menelaus and his wife Helen or a concubine. He and his brother Nicostratus were worshipped by the Lacedaemonians.[1][2][3] Aethiolas's possible sister was Hermione,[4] consort of Neoptolemus and later of Orestes.
Notes
edit- ^ Apollodorus, 3.11.1, f.n. 1 by Frazer with Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 3.175 as the authority; Grimal, s.v. Menelaus; Gantz, p. 573.
- ^ Gantz, Timothy (1993). Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Ancient Sources. The Johns Hopkins Press Ltd., London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 573. ISBN 0-8018-4410-X.
- ^ Grimal, Pierre (1996). The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Blackwell. pp. 268–269. ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 4.11–14
References
edit- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1
- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.