Pieris (mythology)
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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]