historical-figure

Nestor

Beings · Myth & story

The Pylos elder of later Homeric counsel-speech. Not Homer as identity, and not a deity.

Also known as Nestor of Pylos

Hellenic religion

  • Nestor appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad sets Nestor of Pylos among the Achaean elders of counsel. A named Homeric figure in that poem, not Nestor’s cup as identity, and not Homer the poet.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.