Queen of Pylos and wife of Neleus, who bore Nestor, Periclymenus, Chromius, and the maiden Pero — whose suitors had to drive the cattle of Phylacus before Neleus would grant her hand.1
In the underworld catalogue Tyro's son Neleus dwells in sandy Pylos, and Homer names his queen Chloris — youngest daughter of Amphion son of Iasus, who once ruled mightily in Orchomenus of the Minyae. By Neleus she bore glorious children: Nestor, Chromius, lordly Periclymenus, and noble Pero, a wonder to men. All the country round sought Pero in marriage, but Neleus would give her to none save the man who drove from Phylace the kine of mighty Iphicles.2
Apollodorus tells the same marriage after Neleus was banished from Iolcus and came to Messene: he founded Pylos and married Chloris, daughter of Amphion, and by her had a daughter Pero and many sons — among them Nestor and Periclymenus, whom Poseidon granted the power of changing his shape.3
Hyginus makes her the sole daughter to escape the arrows when Apollo and Diana destroyed Niobe's children; she married Neleus, while Amphion died after attacking Apollo's temple — a line that would bind the Theban house of Tantalus to sandy Pylos if the same Chloris is meant.4⚖
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