Mestor (son of Priam)

Mestor ( Greek  Μήστωρ ) is one of the sons of Priam in Greek mythology , his mother is unknown.

Mestor was slain by Achilles during the Trojan War after Aeneas , whose cows Achilles tried to steal on Mount Ida , fled. Priam bitterly lamented the death of his son and placed Mestor, whom he leads first and calls a divine hero, next to Hector and Troilus .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Mestor 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2845 ( digitized version ).
• Hans von Geisau : Mestor 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 1256.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 12, 5; Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 90.
2. ↑ Libraries of Apollodor Epithome 3, 32, there, however, called Nestor; Dion Chrysostom 11, 77.
3. ↑ Homer , Iliad 24: 255-260.