Tags: Mythological Figure.
For the butterfly genus see Thestius (butterfly).In Greek mythology Thestius (Ancient Greek: Θέστιος) was the son of either Ares and Demonice or Agenor (son of Pleuron son of Aetolus) and Epicasta. He was the father of Iphicles with Leucippe or Deidameia daughter of Perieres or else with Eurythemis daughter of Cleoboea and mother of his other children Althaea Eurypylus Evippus Hypermnestra Leda Toxeus and Plexippus.