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In
Greek mythology , Pieris was one of the names given for the slave who was the mother, by
Menelaus , of
Megapenthes .
[1] Homer's
Odyssey , and the geographer
Pausanias , mention that Megapenthes was the illegitimate son of
Menelaus , king of
Mycenaean
Sparta , by a slave, without naming her.
[2] But according to the mythographer
Apollodorus :
Menelaus had ... by a female slave Pieris, an Aetolian, or, according to Acusilaus, by
Tereis , he had a son Megapenthes"
[3]
Other sources give other names for the slave who bore Megapenthes.
[4]
Apollodorus , Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
ISBN
0-674-99135-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
Fowler, R. L., Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary , Oxford University Press, 2013.
ISBN
978-0198147411 .
Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology , Wiley-Blackwell, 1996.
ISBN
978-0-631-20102-1 .
Homer , The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes . Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
Pausanias , Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .
Tripp, Edward, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology , Thomas Y. Crowell Co; First edition (June 1970).
ISBN
069022608X .