Neleus
mythological figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages
in the texts
Odyssey
Nestor's father and former ruler of Pylos, now dead and dwelling in the house of Hades.
"Nestor," said he, "son of Neleus, honor to the Achaean name, you ask whence we come, and I will tell you.
But as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of heaven to shed light on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the city of Neleus.
Now when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Nestor left his couch and took his seat on the benches of white and polished marble that stood in front of his house.
Iliad
King of Pylos and Nestor's father, whose sons were mostly killed by Herakles, and who manages the division of spoils and the city's defense in Nestor's tale.
All these did we drive by night to Pylos the city of Neleus, taking them within the city;
Neleus would not let me arm, and hid my horses, for he said that as yet I could know nothing about war;
Fourth in order Antilokhos, son to noble Nestor son of Neleus, made ready his horses.
Orations
Mythic figure who won the four-horse chariot race.
And a horse-race too was set up, and Phaethon won with the single horse, Neleus with the four-horse chariot.
Archidamus
A mythic Pylian figure accused of robbing Heracles of the cattle from Erytheia.
and lastly, they found that Messene was theirs as a prize taken in war, for Heracles, when he had been robbed of the cattle from Erytheia, by Neleus and all his sons except Nestor, had taken the country captive and slain the offenders, but had committed the city to Nestor’s charge, believing him to be prudent, because, although the youngest of his brethren, he had taken no part in their iniquity.
De Pallio
Mythological leader of the Ionian colonists.
So too the Ionians, companions of Neleus, furnish Asia with new cities;