In Greek mythology, Sthenelus refers to four different people. Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ...
Son of Perseus and Andromeda. He exiled Amphitryon, lover of his niece, Alcmene, because he killed Sthenelus' brother, Electryon. Thus he became king of Mycenae, and was succeeded by his son Eurystheus, who was famous for the labors he designed for Alcmene's son Heracles.
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Upon seizing the thrones of Mycenae and Tiryns, Sthenelus also sent for Atreus and Thyestes, the sons of Pelops, and entrusted Midea to them.
It is the third major fortified city of the Argolid after Mycenae and Tiryns and was located roughly halfway between the two; it was built atop a conical hill and overlooks the Argolid plain.
Second, several of the sons of Perseus had married daughters of Pelops and Hippodamia — the tradition seems unconcerned here with the chronological discrepancy which would make these daughters the age of the Perseids' great-grandmother — Alcaeus married Astydamia, who was the mother of Amphitryon; Mestor married Lysidice; and Sthenelus married Nicippe.
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