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ORNIES (Ancient city) NEMEA
Menestheus. The son of Peteos, who seized the government of Attica, while Theseus pined away in the nether world, and commanded the Athenians before Troy, where he fell.
The city of Orneiae participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.571).
Peteos, a son of Orneus, and father of Menestheus, was expelled from Athens by
Aegeus, and is said to have gone to Phocis, where he founded the town of Stiris.
(Hom. Il. ii. 552, iv. 338; Apollod. iii. 10.8; Paus. ii. 25.5, x. 35. 5; Plut.
Thes. 32.)
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