In Greek mythology, the name Menesthius () may refer to:
Menesthius, son of Spercheus and Polydora, daughter of PerieresApollodorus, 3.13.4 or of Peleus and Antigone.Homer, Iliad 16.173 ff He was one of the Myrmidonian leaders in the Trojan War. Menesthius, son of Areithous and Phylomedusa, from Arnae, Boeotia, killed by Paris in the Trojan War.Homer, Iliad 7.8–10Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 218 (fr. 27 in the Loeb edition, 1914) = Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 7. 9
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