Peisistratos (son of Nestor)

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Peisistratos ( Greek  Πεισίστρατος ) is a person from Greek mythology .

Peisistratus is a son of Nestor , when Homer is when his mother Eurydice stated in the Bibliotheke of Apollodor contrast Anaxibia . His siblings are Peisidike , Polycaste , Perseus , Stratichus , Aretus , Echephron , Antilochus and Thrasymedes .

He is the youngest son of Nestor, who is the last to live unmarried in his father's house; as the strongest of the sons, he is the one who kills the animal with an ax during a cow sacrifice in honor of the god Poseidon . As a friend of Telemachus , he accompanies him on his journey from Pylos to Sparta .

After Herodotus , the Athenian tyrant Peisistratos was named after him.

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Remarks

  1. Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 9.
  2. Homer Odyssey 3, 400.
  3. Homer Odyssey 3, 454.
  4. Homer Odyssey 3, 482 ff; 15, 4 ff.
  5. Herodotus 5:65.