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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:
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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.
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).
In Greek mythology, according to Homer's Odyssey, Eurydice (/ j ʊəˈr ɪ d ɪ s i /; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυδίκη, Eurydikē "wide justice", derived from ευρυς eurys "wide" and δικη dike "justice"), the eldest daughter of Clymenus, was the wife of Nestor. [1]
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 location of Nestor's Pylos was disputed in antiquity; towns named Pylos were found in Elis, Triphylia and Messenia, and each claimed to be Nestor's home. Strabo (8.3), citing earlier writers, argued that Homer meant Triphylian Pylos. Modern scholarship, however, generally locates Nestor's Pylos in Messenia.
There he was welcomed by his cousin Aphareus who gave him the maritime part of the land where he settled and established his palace. Neleus eventually became King of Pylos . Heracles later asked Neleus to cleanse him of the blood-debt he gained by killing his own wife and children, but was refused.
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