Menoetius (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Menoetius (Greek: Μενοίτιος) referred to several different people:

1. A son of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia, and a brother of Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus, was killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning, in the fight of the Titans, and banished to Tartarus.^[1][2][3]
2. One of Hades' shepherds on Erythea. He told Geryon when Heracles stole Geryon's herd.
3. Father of Patroclus and Myrto (by either Sthenele, Periopis or Polymele)^[4][5], son of Actor^[6] and Aegina. This Menoetius may have been one of the Argonauts.

References

1. ^ Hesiod, Theogony 507, &c., 514
2. ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 2. § 3
3. ^ Scholia to Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound 347
4. ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 13. 8
5. ^ Plutarch, Aristides, 20. 6
6. ^ Homer, Iliad, XI, 785