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.

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Grimal, Pierre (1996). The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Blackwell. pp. 268–269. ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1.
  4. ^ Homer, Odyssey 4.11–14

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