Agasthenes

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Agasthenes (Ἀγασθένης) was the son of Augeas, and his successor in the kingdom of Elis. The government was shared between Amphimachus, Thalpius and Agasthenes.[1] With Peloris, he was the father of Polyxenus, one of the "suitors of Helen", who reunified the kingdom when he returned from Troy.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 3. 3
  2. ↑ Homer, Iliad 2. 624
  3. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae, 97

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