Nicostratus (mythology)

Nicostraus is a mythological figure. A son of Helen of Troy and Menelaos (according to the Catalogue of Women, Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra (539), and according to Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, 3.11.1)[1] Although not an important figure in most accounts of the Trojan War, he is the central character in The Luck of Troy, a modern version of the story by Roger Lancelyn Green.

Nicostratus is also a son of Menelaos and a slave woman (according to Pausanias' Description of Greece, 2.18.6)[2]

References

  1. ↑ Catalogue of Women, Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles' Electra (539), and according to Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, 3.11.1
  2. ↑ Pausanias' Description of Greece, 2.18.6
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