Nestor

Nestor in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology (or, better yet, Greek Epic poetry), Nestor of Gerenia (Greek: Νέστωρ Γερήνιος, Nestōr Gerēnios) was the son of Neleus and Chloris and the King of Pylos. He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's siblings. His wife was either Eurydice or Anaxibia; their children included Peisistratus, Thrasymedes, Pisid...

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Nestor in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Νέστωρ), a son of Neleus and Chloris of Pylos in Triphylia, and husband of Eurydice (or, according to others, of Auaxibia, the daughter of Cratieus), by whom he became the father of Peisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratius, Aretus, Echephron, Peisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes. (Hom. Od. 3.413, &c., 452, 464, 11.285, &c.; Apoll...

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