A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

910 STHENELUS. STHENIS.
Mnasippus, and the withdrawal of the Lacedae- he accompanied Heracles from Paros on his exmonian fleet even before the arrival of Iphicrates, pedition against the Amazons, and together with
who had superseded Timotheus [MNASIPPrTS]. his brother Alcaeus he was appointed by Heracles
There can be no question as to the identity of the ruler of Thasos. (Apollod. ii. 5. ~ 9; comp. Apollon.
Stesicles of Xenophon with the Ctesicles of Dio- Rhod. ii. 911, who confounds him with No. 5.)
dorus. But the latter writer tells us that Ctesicles 5. A son of Actor, likewise a companion of Hehad been sent some time before to Zacynthus, to racles in his expedition against the Amazons; but
take the command against the Spartans of the he died and was buried in Paphlagonia, where he
Zacynthian exiles, whom Timotheus had restored. afterwards appeared to the Argonauts. (Apollon.
Schneider would reconcile the two authors by sup- Rhod. ii. 911.)
posing that he was ordered to proceed from Zacyn- 6. A son of Capaneus and Evadne, belonged to
thus to Corcyra; nor does this seem so inconsistent the family of the Anaxagoridae in Argos, and was
with the language of Xenophon as Thirlwall and the father of Cylarabes (Hom. II. v. 109; Paus.
Rehdantz represent it. (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. ~~ 10 ii. 18. ~ 4, 22. ~ 8, 30. in fin.); but, according to
-26; Diod. xv. 46, 47; Schneider, ad Xen. Hell. others, his son's name was Cometes. (Tzetz. ad
vi. 2. ~ 10; Wesseling, ad Diod. xv. 47; Thirl- Lycoph. 603, 1093; Serv. ad Aen. xi. 269.) He
wall's Greece, vol. v. p. 60, note; Rehdantz, Vitae was one of the Epigoni, by whom Thebes was
Iph. C/labr. Timoth. iv. ~ 3.) [E. E.] taken (Hom. II. iv. 405; Apollod. iii. 7. ~ 2), and
STESItMBROTUS (rrTinVfM~poros), of Thasos, commanded the Argives under Diomedes, in the
a rhapsodist and historian in the time of Cimon Trojan war, being the faithful friend and comand Pericles, who is mentioned with praise by panion of Diomedes. (Hom. II. ii. 564, iv. 367,
Plato and Xenophon, and who wrote a work upon xxiii. 511; Philostr. Her. 4; Hygin. Fab. 175.)
Homer, the title of which is not known. He also He was one of the Greeks concealed in the wooden
wrote some historical works, for he is frequently horse (Hygin. Fab. 108), and at the distribution
quoted by Plutarch as an authority. There is also of the booty, he was said to have received an
a quotation in the Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. image of a three-eyed Zeus, which was in after-'Iazo0) from a work of his on the mysteries, 7rEpl times shown at Argos. (Paus. ii. 45. ~ 5, viii. 46.
rEXeTcPv. (Plat. Ion, p. 550, c.; Xen. Memr. iv. ~ 2.) His own statue and tomb also were believed
2. ~ 10, Sympos. iii. 5; Plut. Tlzem. 2, 24, Cim. to exist at Argos. (ii. 20. ~ 4, 22. in fin.; comp.
4, 14, 16, Per. 8, 10, 13, 26, 36; Strab. x. p. Horat.Carm. i. 15.23, iv. 9.20; Stat.Achill.i.469.)
472; Ath. xiii. p. 598, e.; Tatian. adv. Graec. 7. The father of Cycnus, was metamorphosed
48; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 524, 358,512; into a swan. (Ov. Ml]ret. ii. 368.) [L. S.]
Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 43, 44, ed. Wester- STHE'NELUS (Ei'veXos), a tragic poet, conmann.) [P. S.] temporary with Aristophanes, who attacked him in
STHEINO or STHENO (OeW or or0eS), the Geryltades and the Wasps. (Aristoph. Vesp.
one of the Gorgons. (Hes. Tlteog. 276; Apollod. 1312, and the Schol.) The scholiast here speaks
ii. 4. ~ 2.) [L. S.J of him as a tragic actor*, which is evidently a misSTHENEBOEA (OseE,'otaiO), a daughter of Jo- take, for Harpocration (s. v.) expressly tells us that
bates, or Amphianax or Apheidas, was the wife of he was mentioned in the Didascaliae as a tragic
Proetus. From love of Bellerophon she made poet, and there are several references to him as
away with herself, whence Bellerophon is called such. He is mentioned by Aristotle (Poet. 22)
heros Sth7leneboeius. (Apollod. ii. 2. ~ 1, iii. 9. ~ 1; with Cleophon, as an example of those poets whose
comp. PROETus and HlPPoNoUs.) [L. S.] words are well chosen, but whose diction is not at
STHENELA'IDAS (0e0ehAdi3al), a Spartan, all elevated. The insipidity of his style is happily
who held the office of ephor in B. C. 432, and, in ridiculed by Aristophanes in the question, "How
the congress of the Lacedaemonians and their allies shall I eat the words of Sthenelus, dipping them in
at Sparta in that year, vehemently and successfully vinegar or in dry salt?" (Geryt. ap. Sclhol. ad
urged the assembly to decree war with Athens. Vesp. 1. c.; Ath. ix. p. 367.) The comic poet
The speech which Thucydides puts into his mouth Plato also, in his Lacones, attacked him for plagiaon this occasion is strongly marked by the charac- rism. (iHarpocr. and Phot. s. v.) There are no
teristics of Spartan eloquence,- brevity and sim- fragments of Sthenelus, except a single verse quoted
plicity. (Thuc. i. 85,86, viii. 5;Paus.iii. 7.) [E. E.] by Athenaeus (x. p. 428, a.), which, being an
STHE'NELAS (OEydveas), a son of Crotopus, hexameter, can hardly belong to a tragedy. Perfather of Gelanor and king of Argos. (Paus. ii. 16. haps Sthenelus composed elegies. How long he
~ 1, 19. ~ 2.) [L. S.] lived is not known: from his not being mentioned
STHE'NELE (OEvseAh),the name of two mythi- in the Frogs, Kayser supposes that he had died
cal personages, one a daughter of Danaus (Apollod. before the exhibition of that play in B. c. 406.
ii. 1. ~ 5), and the other a daughter of Acastus and (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 323; Welcker, die
mother of Patroclus. (iii. 12. ~ 8.) [L. S.] Griech. Trag#d. p. 1033; Kayser, lIist. Crit. Trag.
STHE'NELUS (dy'vehAos). 1. One of the sons Graec. pp. 323-325; Wagner, Frag. Trag.
of Aegyptus and husband of Sthenele. (Apollod. Graec. in Didot's Bibliotlbeca, p. 91.) [P. S.]
ii. I. ~ 5.) STHENIS or STHENNIS (0d40s,:OEvilq,
2. A son of Melas, who was killed by Tydeus. the former is the form used by the ancient writers,
(Apollod. i. 8. ~ 5; comp. OENEUS.) the latter in extant inscriptions), a statuary of Olyn3. A son of Perseus and Andromeda, and bus- thus, is mentioned by Pliny as contemporary with
band of Nicippe, by whom he became the father of Lysippus and others, at the 114th Olympiad, B. c.
Alcinog, Medusa, and Eurystheus. (Hom. II. xix. 323. (H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. The false reading
116; Ov. Her. ix. 25, Mllet. ix. 273; Apollod. ii. of this passage, in the common editions, makes
4. ~ 5, &c.) He was slain by Hyllus, the son of
Heracles. (Hlygin. Fab. 244.) * That is, in the common editions. In the best
4. A son of Androgeos and grandson of Minos; manuscripts the word brroKcpir'S is omitted.