Pleisthenes

In Greek mythology, Pleisthenes (Ancient Greek: Πλεισθένης) is the name of several different people descended from Tantalus.

Pleisthenes, a bastard son of King Pelops of Pisa, son of Tantalus, by another woman.[1] Two of his brothers are Atreus, and Thyestes.
Pleisthenes, son of Atreus and Aerope.[2]
Pleisthenes, an illegitimate son of Thyestes and Aerope. He and his brother Tantalus were killed by Atreus (Aerope's husband) and fed to their father, Thyestes, in revenge for the death of Pleisthenes (son of Atreus).[3]
Pleisthenes, youngest son of Menelaus and Helen.[4] Helen took young Pleisthenes with her when she went to Troy with Paris, and the boy is not mentioned in any stories after that.

Notes

Scholia on Pindar,Olympian Odes 1.144c-e
Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 69.
Hyginus, Fables 246.

Cypria fr. 9.

References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com

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