Ch. 15: The Line of Tantalos
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♠ Tzetzes, Exegis in Iliadem – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 93, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
Tzetz. Exeg. Iliad. p. 68. 19 Hermann
According to Hesiod and Aischylos (cf. Ag. 1569, 1602), Agamemnon as well as Menelaos are considered sons of Pleisthenes, son of Atreus, but according to the poet (i.e. Homer) and everyone, they were simply sons of Atreus himself. . . . According to Hesiod, Aischylos, and some others, Pleisthenes was the son of Atreus and Aerope, and the children of Pleisthenes and Dias’ daughter Kleola were Agamemnon, Menelaos, and Anaxibia. But since Pleisthenes died young, having been brought up by their grandfather Atreus, they were considered by many Atreides. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Σ Or 4 – Scholia to Euripides, Orestes – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem I pp. 95-96, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875.
♠ Addendum to Hes fr 194 MW – Papathomopoulos, Nouveaux fragments d’auteurs anciens, pp. 11-26. Ioannina 1980.
According to Homer, Agamemnon and Menelaos were sons of Atreus, son of Pelops, and of Aerope from Krete, daughter of Katreus; according to Hesiod, they were the sons of Pleisthenes, a hermaphrodite or lame, who wore a woman’s mantle. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
♠ Loukianos Podagra 250-57
Greek Text Greek Text and English Translation
♠ Stesichoros fr 209 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, pp. 112-13, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Stesichoros fr 219 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 117, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Ibykos fr 282.21-22 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 144, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
the king Pleisthenides, leader of men, son of a noble father Atreus (Transl. Timothy N. Gantz)
♠ Bak 15.6 – Bakchylides, Odes
Menelaus, the royal son of Atreus Greek Text
♠ Bak 15.48 – Bakchylides, Odes
Menelaus son of Pleisthenes Greek Text
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, April 2024.
