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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:
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).
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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.
[2] [3] [4] This theory has not been generally accepted on grounds of geology, [5] archaeology, [6] philology, [7] [8] or historical and Homeric analysis. [9] “What is clearly missing,” wrote Dr Christine Haywood reviewing Odysseus Unbound, “is a good knowledge of the complexities of Homeric language, and the support of archaeology.” [10]
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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]
Telemachus then returns to the palace to keep an eye on the suitors and to await his father as the beggar. [ 6 ] When Penelope challenges the suitors to string Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow through the handle-holes of twelve axe heads, Telemachus is the first to attempt the task.