Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Chloris.
The gallery
Sacrifice at Pylos (Nestor)
Meleager Painter, c. 400–380 BC
Attic vase of Nestor's Pylian sacrifice — the household Chloris ruled as Neleus' queen and mother of Nestor, Periclymenus and Pero. The mother stays offstage; her son's court keeps her name alive.
Telemachus Departing from Nestor
Henry Howard, c. 1805
Howard's Odyssey illustration: Telemachus leaves Nestor's court — the Pylian house Chloris founded with Neleus, mother of the sage who hosts Odysseus' son.
In play
Chloris (daughter of Amphion of Orchomenus)
Wife of Neleus, queen of Pylos, mother of Nestor and Pero — the Chloris who survived Artemis' slaughter of the Niobids in some tellings; not the spring-nymph Flora, nor every greenfinch of the same Latin name.
Nestor
Chloris' most famous son — the aged counselor of the Iliad whose Pylian wisdom begins in her marriage to Neleus.
Odyssey
Homer
Homer's Telemachus visits Nestor at Pylos — Chloris' household still the first port of the son's search for news of Odysseus.