Editing Pleisthenes (section)

==Other Pleisthenes==
There were apparently other members of the house of Tantalus also named Pleisthenes:

*Pleisthenes, the son of Pelops. Some scholars have equated this Pleisthenes with the Pleisthenes who was the father of Agamenmnon and Menelaus.<ref>Gantz, pp. 544, 554; Collard and Cropp 2008b, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.79.xml p. 79 n. 1]; Grimal s.v. Pleisthenes.</ref>
*Pleisthenes, along with his brother [[Tantalus (son of Thyestes)|Tantalus]], were the infant sons of [[Thyestes]] and [[Aerope]], who Atreus killed and served to Thyestes at a banquet.<ref>Gantz, pp. 547, 548; Collard and Cropp 2008b, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.79.xml p. 79 n. 1]; Parada, s.v. Plisthenes 2; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D33%3Aentry%3Dpleisthenes-bio-1 s.v. Pleisthenes]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#88 88], [https://topostext.org/work/206#246 246]; [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], [[Thyestes (Seneca)|Thyestes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/seneca_younger-thyestes/2004/pb_LCL078.293.xml 726]. Grimal, s.v. Pleithenes says this story is "probably based upon a misconception."</ref>
*Pleisthenes, the son of Menelaus and [[Helen of Troy|Helen]], who travelled with a son of Helen and [[Paris of Troy|Paris]] to [[Cyprus]].<ref>This is according to a ''[[Cypria]]'' fragment, see Gantz, pp. 322 (which says that "the implication of our scholiast source [for this fragment] is that this child was in lieu of Nikostratos"), 572 (taken to Cypris), 573 (which says this Pleisthenes "seems nowhere else mentioned"); Collar and Cropp 2008b, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.79.xml p. 79 n. 1].</ref> It is not mentioned when this happened, but is usually assumed to have occurred when Helen and Paris left for [[Troy]]. However, Jonathan Burgess believes a dating after the [[war]] to be more likely.<ref>Burgess, Jonathan. Kyprias, the "Kypria", and Multiformity (2002).</ref>