Thestius
Θέστιος
(Θέστιος), a son of Ares and Demonice or Androdice, and, according to others, a son of Agenor and a grandson of Pleuron, the king of Aetolia. He was the father of Iphiclus, Euippus, Plexippus, Eurypylus, Leda, Althaea, and Hypermnestra. His wife is not the same in all traditions, some calling her Lycippe or Laophonte, a daughter of Pleuron, and others Deidameia. (Apollod. 1.7. §§ 7, 9, 16, 3.10.5; Paus. 3.13.5; Hygin. Fab. 14; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 1.146, 201.) His daughters Leda and Althaea are sometimes designated by the patronymic Thestias (Eurip. Iph. Aul. 49; Aeschyl. Chocph. 606), and his son Iphiclus by the name Thestiades. (Apollon. Rhod. 1.261.)
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.