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  Neleus - LoveToKnow 1911
NELEUS, in Greek legend, son of Poseidon and Tyro, brother of Pelias.
By Chloris, daughter of Amphion, Neleus was the father of twelve sons (of whom Nestor was the most famous) and a daughter Pero.
Through the contest for his daughter's hand (see Melampus) he is connected with the legends of the prophetic race of the Melampodidae, who founded the mysteries and expiatory rites and the orgies of Dionysus in Argolis.
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 Neleus
Neleus was the son of Poseidon and Tyro, brother of Pelias.
Neleus and Pelias fought for the crown, and Neleus was banished to Messenia, becoming King of Pylos.
With Chloris, Neleus was the father of Pero, Alastor and Nestor.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ne/Neleus.html   (152 words)

  
 Neleus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Some have said that Neleus is son of Hippocoon 4, but others affirm that he was the son of Cretheus 1, son of Aeolus 1, son of Hellen 1 (the eponym of the Hellenes), son of Deucalion 1, the man who survived the Flood.
Neleus married Chloris 1, daughter of King Amphion 1 of Thebes, and one of the few NIOBIDS who escaped the wrath of the sweet children of Leto, Apollo and Artemis.
Neleus was, according to some, killed by Heracles 1 during the latter's invasion of Messenia.
www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/Neleus.html   (1360 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1151 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Neleus, who was expelled, went with Melampus and Bias to Pylos, which his uncle Aphareus gave to him (Apollod.
Neleus was thus reduced to a state of defencelessness, and Augeas, king of the Epeians, availed himself of the opportunity for harassing his kingdom ; among other things Augeas intercepted and kept for himself a team of four horses which Neleus had sent to the Olympian games (Horn.
The descendants of Neleus, the Nelei'dae, were expelled from their kingdom by the Heracleidae, and migrated for the most part to Athens (Paus.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2259.html   (898 words)

  
 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 416   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Son of Neleus and Chloris, ruler of the Messenian and Triphylian Pylus, and later also, after the extinction of the royal family there, of Messenia; wedded to Eurydice, by whom he had seven sons and two daughters.
Neleus, as yet hardly a youth, retaliates by driving off the herds of the Epeans; upon which the latter with a large army besiege the Pylian fortress of Thyroessa on the Eurotas.
Neleus forms one of the relieving army, serving as a foot- j soldier, owing to his father's having, from regard to his youth, had the war-horses concealed from him.
www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0419.html   (747 words)

  
 Messenia, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Neleus settled in the coastal part of the territory, taking up his residence in Pylos, which some say was founded by him.
Neleus' daughter Pero 2 was married to an Argive king, either Bias 1 or his brother Melampus 1.
At the time of the Trojan War, Nestor sailed from Messenia together with his son Thrasymedes 1, with Thrasymedes 2 (son of Neleus in spite of all said before about the massacre of the sons of Neleus), and Antilochus, who is said to have been suckled by a bitch when he was a child.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Messenia.html   (1403 words)

  
 The Aeolids
Neleus was the son of Tyro and Poseidon, and the twin brother of Pelias.
Neleus told his daughter's suitors that the man who managed to steal the cattle of Phylacus, king of Phylace, would be able to marry his daughter.
Nestor was the youngest son of Neleus and Chloris, daughter of Amphion.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/aeolids.html   (4374 words)

  
 Pero Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Talaus, Areius and Leodocus, sons of Bias by Pero, daughter of Neleus;
Neleus married Chloris; Nestor, Chromius, Periclymenus, and Pero, children of Neleus by Chloris, youngest daughter of Amphion;
Pero, daughter of Tyro by Neleus, son of Poseidon; Bias, son of Amythaon, married Pero; Perialces, Aretus, sons, and Alphesiboea, daughter, of Bias; The story is in Pherecydes;
www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i668Sources.htm   (110 words)

  
 Neleus
Neleus moved to Messenia and became king of Pylos.
When Heracles visited him with the request of cleansing him from a blood-debt, Neleus refused.
Heracles destroyed Pylos, and killed Neleus with all his sons, except for Nestor.
www.pantheon.org /articles/n/neleus.html   (66 words)

  
 Pelias - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Because Tyro afterwards married her father's brother Cretheus, king of Iolcus in Thessaly, to whom she bore Aeson, Pheres and Amythaon, Pelias was by some thought to be the son of Cretheus.
He and his twin-brother Neleus were exposed by their mother, but were nurtured by a herdsman.
In order to rid himself of Jason, Pelias sent him to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece, and took advantage of his absence to put to death his father, Aeson, his mother and brother.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PELIAS.htm   (245 words)

  
 Schulers Books (Iliad - 32/73)
Neleus had had twelve sons, but I alone was left; the others had all been killed.
Neleus was angered by what he had both said and done, and took great value in return, but he divided the rest, that no man might have less than his full share.
Neleus would not let me arm, and hid my horses, for he said that as yet I could know nothing about war; nevertheless Minerva so ordered the fight that, all on foot as I was, I fought among our mounted forces and vied with the foremost of them.
www.schulers.com /books/poetry/Iliad/Iliad32.htm   (2054 words)

  
 Electronic Antiquities Volume II, Number 1
And Tyro's twin sons, Pelias and Neleus, are famous for their political struggles, the one with Jason the other with Herakles -- not to mention Pelias' murder of Sidero in the temple of Hera, and the struggles evoked by juxtaposing the twins with their three legitimate stepbrothers: Aeson, Pheres, Amythaon (11.258–59).
That this refers to the tradition of Neleus as a weak leader is hinted at by the presence of his son Periclymenus, the only son called 'lordly' and in the tradition the only one able to keep Pylos safe.
Neleus is most famous for being the victim of Herakles, son of Zeus (fr.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V2N1/houlihan.html   (5362 words)

  
 The Life of St   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The town of Chorischon was a corruption of the name "Coriscus," drawn from the Neleus, son of Coriscus, legend; the country of Choria was a corruption of "Caria," drawn from the Neleus of Miletus legend; and the "country of Athens in Greece" passage encountered in the "Chronicle
of the Picts and Scots" as the homeland of the Gaedil was derived from the Neleus of Pylos legend.
The Lacedomonians led by Neleus, the son of Aeneas.
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 Jimmys Place - Selcuk (Ephesus), Turkey
When Neleus, son of King Kodros of Athens, decided to found a city, the gods told him that he must choose a site where the earth of a young maiden mingled with water.
Neleus wandered through Anatolia until he came to a place where a young girl named Kaeira was collecting clay from a river bed with which to make pots.
This was to be the celebrated Miletus.Another version of the founding myth of the city relates that Akakallis, daughter of the King of Crete, bore a child, Miletus, to the god Apollo.
www.artemisguesthouse.com /Miletos.asp   (808 words)

  
 MILET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
According to legend, the city was founded by Neleus, son of King Codrus of Athens.
Neleus came to settle with his men and killed the resident males compelling the women to marry the newcomers.
After this took place the women swore not to sit at the same table with their husbands and also not to call them by their names.
www.anadol.com /milet.htm   (500 words)

  
 Pylos
It was Neleus, the father of Nestor, who built the city, having come from Iolcus when his brother Peleus expelled him, and settled there a mixed population of his own followers.
Neleus brought great renown to Pylos; but later in his reign, when his sons were still only young men, some unexplained disaster overtook the city, remembered in tradition as the destruction of Pylos by Heracles.
A large part of the population perished: of Neleus’ twelve sons Nestor only survived; but the people of Pylos rebuilt the city on an even grander scale, including a spatious palace for Nestor, who followed Neleus on the throne.
www.varchive.org /nldag/pylos.htm   (2392 words)

  
 Pylos
Pylos was founded by Neleus, the son of Tyro and Poseidon who was raised in Iolcos at the court of Tyro's husband Chreteus with his twin brother Pelias.
With his sons, Neleus had to sustain a war against Heracles, either because Neleus had refused tu purify him after the murder of Iphitus, or becase Neleus has sided with adversaries of Heracles in an earlier campaign waged by the hero.
Anyway, in that war, all of Neleus' sons, except the youngest, Nestor, were killed, and maybe even Neleus himself (some traditions say that he survived and later died in Corinth).
www.plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/pylos.htm   (625 words)

  
 Pelias 1, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
For living in Thessaly, some say, Tyro fell in love with the river god Enipeus, and as she came often to the waters of the river to chant her love, Poseidon, taking the form of the river, lay with her.
Since this had been done in secret, she, on giving birth to the twins Neleus and Pelias 1, abandoned them, but when they were exposed, a horse-keeper found them and saved them.
Otherwise, it is told that Neleus and Pelias 1 were reared by Sidero, their stepmother and Salmoneus' second wife, and while they lived in Elis, some say, they held the Olympian games after Aethlius, the father of Endymion.
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 Iolcos
Before he married her, she had had twins from Poseidon, Pelias and Neleus, whom she had exposed at birth and who were raised by a mare sent by Poseidon (or by horse traders who happened to find them).
Amythaon was the father of Bias and Melampous, who later moved to the court of their uncle Neleus at Pylos, where Bias married Neleus' daughter Pero to become the grandfather of Adrastus, the king of Argos who led the expedition of the Seven against Thebes at the request of Polynices, Oedipus' son.
In their fight for the throne, Pelias won and became king of Iolcos, while Neleus fled in Messenia, where he founded the city of Pylos (Neleus was the father of Nestor).
plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/iolcos.htm   (1443 words)

  
 Chloris Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sipylus, Eupinytus, Ismenus, Damasichthon, Agenor, Phaedimus, Tantalus, seven sons, and Ethodaia or Neaera, Cleodoxa, Astyoche, Phthia, Pelopia, Astycratia, Ogygia, seven daughters, of Amphion by Niobe, daughter of Tantalus; Neleus married Chloris, eldest daughter of Niobe by Amphion;
Neleus married Chloris; Nestor, Chromius, Periclymenus, and Pero, children of Neleus by Chloris, youngest daughter of Amphion, son of Iasus;
Chloris was married to Neleus, son of Poseidon by Tyro;
www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i764Sources.htm   (195 words)

  
 GateWorld - Stargate Atlantis Season One: "Childhood's End"
Neleus returns to the ancient city and finds McKay tweaking the Z.P.M. Just as he works, the Wraith probe appears overhead, distracting them.
Neleus and his men are now convinced that the device works and hurries off to inform Ares.
Just as the other archers ready to kill the full-growns, Neleus and his hunting party arrives and tells Ares that the device is real; it took the "Wraith bird" out of the sky.
www.gateworld.net /atlantis/s1/106.shtml   (1451 words)

  
 Miletus - once the city of philosophers
It is situated south of Izmir, in the province of Aydin, 20 kilometres north of Didyma.
Neleus wandered through Asia Minor until he came to a place where a young girl named Kaeira was collecting clay from a river bed with which to make pots.
Another version of the founding myth of the city relates that Akakallis, daughter of the King of Crete, bore a child, Miletus, to the god Apollo.
www.bodrumpages.com /English/miletus.html   (858 words)

  
 Neleus - Vikipeedia, vaba entsüklopeedia
Neleus oli Tyro poeg, Aisoni, Peliase ja Pherese vend, Nestori isa.
Siis aga ilmusid välja Pelias ja Neleus, kellele kasuisa oli nende vanematest rääkinud.
Herakles palus Neleusel kättemaksust loobuda, ent Neleus keeldus.
et.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neleus   (257 words)

  
 Pelias - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pelias, in Greek mythology, usurper of the throne of Iolcus.
He was the son of Tyro and Poseidon and the twin brother of Neleus.
Later Medea, hoping to restore Jason as rightful successor to the throne, tricked the daughters of Pelias into murdering him.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pelias.html   (255 words)

  
 argos12.html
In the battle at Pylos Herakles killed Neleus and eleven of his twelve sons; only Nestor, the youngest, was spared, since he had been sent away from home to be raised by the Gerenians.
One of Neleus’ sons, Periklymenos, had received from his grandfather Poseidon the ability to change himself into any kind of animal or tree; another source limits his choices to an eagle, ant, bee, or snake.
By wounding Hera in the breast Herakles gained symbolic revenge for her rejection of him from her breast when he was an infant; his “retroactive” poisoning of her breast appropriately punishes her refusal to give him the nurturance he desired.
www.sporadestours.com /argos12.html   (856 words)

  
 Characters - Neleus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Neleus was assigned by Ares to retrieve Dr.
He saw firsthand that a zero point module was responsible for disabling Wraith devices, and reported this information back to Ares.
Childhood's End - Neleus returns from the ancient city to inform Ares that the zero point module indeed works, and that killing the Full Growns may not be necessary.
www.gateworld.net /omnipedia/characters/n/neleus.shtml   (99 words)

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