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.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.
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