Character · Individual

Neleus

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name: Neleus
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

house of Hades1 observation

·Reported

Neleus had gone to the house of Hades.

See evidence text

“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. Here aforetime sat Neleus, peer of gods in counsel, but he was now dead, and had gone to the house of Hades; so Nestor sat in his seat sceptre in hand, as guardian of the public weal. His sons as they left their rooms gathered round him, Echephron, Stratius, Perseus, Aretus, and Thrasymedes; the sixth son was Pisistratus, and when Telemachus joined them they made him sit with them. Nestor then addressed them.”

Claims

·Remembered

Neleus, peer of gods in counsel, formerly occupied Nestor’s seat but is now dead in the house of Hades.

See evidence text

“Here aforetime sat Neleus, peer of gods in counsel, but he was now dead, and had gone to the house of Hades”

·Remembered

Tyro bears Neleus, who serves Jove zealously and lives in Pylos.

See evidence text

“she in due course bore Pelias and Neleus, who both of them served Jove with all their might. Pelias was a great breeder of sheep and lived in Iolcus, but the other lived in Pylos”

·Remembered

Neleus marries beautiful Chloris with priceless presents and later sets the cattle-raid test for Pero.

See evidence text

“Chloris, whom Neleus married for her beauty, having given priceless presents for her. She was youngest daughter to Amphion son of Iasus and king of Minyan Orchomenus, and was Queen in Pylos. She bore Nestor, Chromius, and Periclymenus, and she also bore that marvellously lovely woman Pero, who was wooed by all the country round; but Neleus would only give her to him who should raid the cattle of Iphicles from the grazing grounds of Phylace”

·Direct

Neleus seizes Melampus’s property and leaves him imprisoned for a year in king Phylacus’s house.

See evidence text

“Neleus seized his goods and held them for a whole year, during which he was a close prisoner in the house of king Phylacus”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“Pylos the city of Neleus”

·Direct

“Neleus, peer of gods in counsel”

·Reported

“Pelias and Neleus”

·Direct

“the great and powerful king Neleus”