Menoetius
Family: Achaeans · Role: father of Patroclus · First appears: BOOK I
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Menoetius)
In Book I, Menoetius is named as the father of Patroclus, who is called “the son of Menoetius.” In Book XI, Menoetius is identified as the son of Actor, and is quoted advising Patroclus about Achilles: “Counsel him wisely, guide him in the right way, and he will follow you to his own profit.”
Relationship record
BOOK I
- child: Patroclus “the son of Menoetius”
BOOK IX
- child: Patroclus “Patroclus, who sat opposite to him”
BOOK XI
- parent: Actor (Actor is Menoetius's father.) “Menoetius the son of Actor spoke thus to you”
- child: Patroclus (Menoetius is Patroclus's father.) “did not Menoetius charge you thus, on the day when he sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon?”
- with Achilles (Menoetius instructs Patroclus regarding Achilles.) “‘My son,’ said he, ‘Achilles is of nobler birth than you are, but you are older than he, though he is far the better man of the two. Counsel him wisely, guide him in the right way, and he will follow you to his own profit.’”
BOOK XVI
BOOK XVII
- child: Patroclus “the dead son of Menoetius”
BOOK XVIII
- child: Patroclus “the brave son of Menoetius has fallen”
BOOK XIX
- child: Patroclus “the son of Menoetius”
BOOK XXIII
- child: Patroclus “Patroclus son of Menoetius”
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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.