Tereis
Slave of Menelaus in Greek mythology
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In Greek mythology, Tereis (Ancient Greek: Τηρηίς, romanized: Tērēís) was one of the names given for the slave who was the mother, by Menelaus, of Megapenthes.[1] According to R. L. Fowler, the name Tereis occurs nowhere else, may be associated with Thrace, and is possibly corrupt.[2]
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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.[3] But according to one source, the sixth-century BC mythographer Acusilaus (as reported by the mythographer Apollodorus), the name of the slave was Tereis.[4] Other sources give other names for the slave who bore Megapenthes. For example Apollodorus, in the same passage in which he mentions Tereis, also mentions "Pieris, an Aetolian".[5]