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Bath in Palace of Nestor. The Palace of Nestor (Modern Greek: Ανάκτορο του Νέστορα) was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor's kingdom of "sandy Pylos". [1] The palace featured in the story of the Trojan War, as Homer tells us that Telemachus:
Chora is associated with Ancient Pylos, one of the most important Mycenaean kingdoms, that took part in the Trojan War, with Nestor as its king. Ruins of the Palace of Nestor have been discovered 3 kilometers away from the town. It is the best preserved Mycenaean palace and one of the most important archeological sites in Greece.
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (or PRAP) is a diachronic and multi-disciplinary archaeological expedition established in 1990. Its purpose is to study the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in southwestern Greece (modern Messenia).
Pylos (UK: / ˈ p aɪ l ɒ s /, US: /-l oʊ s /; Greek: Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform, it has been part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. [2]
During the Bronze Age the palace at Pylos controlled Messenia politically and economically. A Linear B tablet from there, PY Cn 3, mentions a region called Mezana in local Mycenaean Greek (Linear B: 𐀕𐀼𐀙, me-za-na), from which groups of men named from places in the Peloponnesus each contributed one ox (Linear B: 𐀦𐀃, qo-o; also denoted by the BOS ideogram, i.e. 𐀘) to an ...
Messenia or Messinia (/ m ə ˈ s iː n i ə / mə-SEE-nee-ə; Greek: Μεσσηνία) is a regional unit (perifereiaki enotita) in the southwestern part of the Peloponnese region, in Greece. Until the implementation of the Kallikratis plan on 1 January 2011, [ 2 ] Messenia was a prefecture ( nomos ) covering the same territory.
Iklaina (Greek: Ίκλαινα) is a historic village in the municipal unit of Pylos, Messenia, Greece.The settlement, which is situated in low hills approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) northeast of Pylos, stands upon the remains of a Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC) city. [2]
Nestor was the son of King Neleus [3] of Pylos and Chloris, [4] [5] daughter of King Amphion [6] of Orchomenus.Otherwise, Nestor's mother was called Polymede. [7]His wife was either Eurydice or Anaxibia; their children included Peisistratus, Thrasymedes, Pisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, and Antilochus.