mestra's story is one of the best preserved and most studied sections of the "catalogue". she had the ability to change her shape at will, a skill which her father erysichthon exploited in service of a ravening hunger with which he had been cursed and for which reason the people had nicknamed him aethon (, "aithon", "blazing"). he would marry off mestra for the bride prices she garnered, only to have the girl return home in some different form. the most notable victim of this plot was sisyphus, who, despite his characteristic cunning, could never retain custody of his would-be daughter-in-law. strife arose between sisyphus and erysichthon which no mortal could resolve, and the case was handed over to another authority. the text is damaged at this point, and identity of the mediator is a matter of dispute, as is the nature of the verdict rendered. exactly how this judgement resolves the quarrel over mestra is obscure, but sisyphus ultimately comes out on the losing end, for mestra does not bear children to glaucus. instead poseidon whisks her off to kos, where she bears eurypylus to the god. eurypylus' descendants rule the island, which is sacked by heracles in a brief allusion to the great hero's adventures. on his way home from attacking troy for the horses of laomedon, he assaulted kos before going on to participate in the gigantomachy.