Nestor. Nestor of Gerenia was the legendary wise King of Pylos described in Homer's Odyssey.
Excavations from 1939 revealed his palace, and excavations have recently resumed at the site. Nestor was the son of Neleus and Chloris.
His wife was either Eurydice or Anaxibia; their children included Peisistratus, Thrasymedes, Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, and Antilochus. In late accounts, Nestor had a daughter Epicaste who became the mother of Homer by Telemachus.
Nestor is referred to in the play The Merchant of Venice, in Scene 1 of Act I, as a person who would laugh only at a very serious joke. Nestor is also a character in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida, set during the Trojan War.
Originally from Gerenia, Nestor was an Argonaut, helped fight the centaurs, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He became the King of Pylos after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's siblings. He and his sons, Antilochus and Thrasymedes, fought on the side of the Achaeans in the Trojan War. Though Nestor was already very old when the war began, he was noted for his bravery and speaking abilities. In the Iliad, he often gives advice to the younger warriors and advises Agamemnon and Achilles to reconcile. He is too old to engage in combat himself, but he leads the Pylian troops, riding his chariot, and one of his horses is killed by an arrow
Excavations from 1939 revealed his palace, and excavations have recently resumed at the site. Nestor was the son of Neleus and Chloris.
His wife was either Eurydice or Anaxibia; their children included Peisistratus, Thrasymedes, Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, and Antilochus. In late accounts, Nestor had a daughter Epicaste who became the mother of Homer by Telemachus.
Nestor is referred to in the play The Merchant of Venice, in Scene 1 of Act I, as a person who would laugh only at a very serious joke. Nestor is also a character in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida, set during the Trojan War.
Originally from Gerenia, Nestor was an Argonaut, helped fight the centaurs, and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He became the King of Pylos after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's siblings. He and his sons, Antilochus and Thrasymedes, fought on the side of the Achaeans in the Trojan War. Though Nestor was already very old when the war began, he was noted for his bravery and speaking abilities. In the Iliad, he often gives advice to the younger warriors and advises Agamemnon and Achilles to reconcile. He is too old to engage in combat himself, but he leads the Pylian troops, riding his chariot, and one of his horses is killed by an arrow
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