Mestor (son of Pterelaus)
Mestor ( Greek Μήστωρ ) is one of the sons of Pterelaos in Greek mythology , so was of divine descent from Poseidon , the grandfather of Pterelaos. As siblings he had the brothers Chromios , Tyrannos , Antiochus , Chersidamas and yours as well as the sister Komaitho .
Mestor and his brothers tried during the reign of Elektryon in Mycenae to dispute the rule and to claim Mestor as descendants of the son of Perseus . All the brothers except yours were killed in the ensuing clashes.
According to a scholion in Homer's Iliad , Pterelaus was married to Hippothoe , who would have been Mestor's mother.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Mestor 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2845 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 4, 5.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 4, 7.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 4, 6.
- ↑ Scholion to Homer, Iliad 19:116.