Pleisthenes

Quartigod son of Helen and Menelaus per the Cypria-fragment tradition. Variant detail: Helen took him to Troy when she fled with Paris — making him the only of her Spartan-born children to accompany her into the abduction. Disappears from the narrative before Troy falls; presumed to have died young at Troy. Note: There is a separate Pleisthenes in the Atreid genealogy (sometimes son of Atreus, sometimes father of Agamemnon and Menelaus in the variant tradition that has Atreus raise his grandsons) — those Pleisthenes figures are NOT this person.

Parentage

• maternal: Helen
• paternal: Menelaus
• parent: Atreus

Children

• Agamemnon

Relations

• sibling: HermioneFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• sibling: NicostratusFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• sibling: AethiolasFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
• sibling: MaraphiusFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.

Sources

• existence: Cypria fragment; Hesiodic catalogue tradition; later commentator (primary)
• parentage: Cypria fr. (primary)