Mnestheus

Character in the Aeneid

Mnestheus (Ancient Greek: Μνησθεός) is a character from Roman mythology, found in Virgil's Aeneid. He is described by Virgil as the ancestral hero of the Memmii and "Of the house of Assaracus". One of a handful of vaguely defined lieutenants under Aeneas, he appears to be Aeneas's most senior captain, taking charge in Book 9 in his absence. He takes second place in the boat race during the funeral games of Anchises in Book 5.

References

Virgil IV, 288; IX, 171, 781.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities edited by William Smith (1870).

External links

The Aeneid by Virgil' at Project Gutenberg (in English)

Virgil's Aeneid (19 BC)

Characters

Deities	Alecto Crinisus Cupid Hecate Hymen Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Saturn Tiberinus Venus
Trojans	Achates Aeneads Aeneas Aeolus Aletes Anchises Andromache Antiphates Ascanius Caieta Capys Cassandra Clonius Corynaeus Creusa Dardanus Dares Phrygius Deiphobus Elymus Entellus Euryalus Gyas Helenus Hippocoon Ilioneus Laocoön Mimas Misenus Mnestheus Nisus Ornytus Palinurus Pandarus Panthous Paris Polites Priam Ripheus Sergestus Theano Thymoetes Ucalegon
Phoenicians	Acerbas Anna Perenna Belus Dido Mattan I Pygmalion of Tyre
Others	Acestes Achaemenides Actor Ajax the Lesser Amata Androgeus Automedon Aventinus Butes Camilla Catillus Clytius Cydon Cydonians Diomedes Erulus Evander of Pallene Halaesus Iarbas Juturna Latinus Lausus Lavinia Macar Messapus Metabus Mezentius Neoptolemus Pallas Picus Rutuli Salius Sinon Turnus Ufens Umbro Venulus