[2] The Pleisthenes who was said to have been the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus is a puzzling figure, with a confused genealogy, complicated by the existence of other members of the house of Tantalus with the same name.
[7] According to varying accounts, Pleisthenes' wife was Aerope, who he had received from the mariner hero Nauplius.
According to this tradition, apparently, Pleisthenes died young, and Agamemnon and Menelaus were raised by their grandfather Atreus.
[14] Another Iliad scholium, citing Porphyry and "many others", says that Pleisthenes fathered Agamemnon and Menelaus, did nothing of note, and died young, with Atreus raising his sons.
[25] A possible plot for the play is found in Hyginus, Fabulae 86:[26] The mythographer Apollodorus gives an account of how Aerope came to be Pliesthenes' wife: However, elsewhere he has Aerope as the wife of Atreus,[29] and Agamemnon and Menelaus as the sons of her and Atreus,[30] Scholia to Pindar's Olympian 1 mention a son, or bastard son, of Pelops, named Pleisthenes, which some scholars have identified with the Pleisthenes who was the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.