Sthenelus
3. A son of Perseus and Andromeda, and husband of Nicippe, by whom he became the father of Alcinoe, Medusa, and Eurystheus. (Hom. Il. 19.116; Ov. Her, 9.25, Met. 9.273; Apollod. 2.4.5, &c.) He was slain by Hyllus, the son of Heracles. (Hygin. Fab. 244.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.