A son of Perseus and Andromeda, born at Mycenae among the Perseid brothers. By Lysidice, daughter of Pelops, he fathered Hippothoe, whose seizure by Poseidon began the line that peopled Taphos with the Teleboans.1
Apollodorus numbers Mestor among the children Perseus had at Mycenae by Andromeda: with Alcaeus, Sthenelus, Heleus and Electryon his brothers, and the one daughter Gorgophone, whom Perieres married. He is thus a prince of the Perseid house that ruled the Argolid, brother to Alcaeus the father of Amphitryon and to Sthenelus the father of Eurystheus.2
Mestor wedded Lysidice, daughter of Pelops, and by her had a daughter, Hippothoe. Poseidon carried Hippothoe off to the Echinadian Islands and there lay with her, begetting Taphius, who colonized Taphos and named its people the Teleboans. Through this descent Mestor became the founding ancestor of the seafaring house across the Ionian waters.3
The lineage surfaces again a generation on, when Mestor's brother Electryon reigned at Mycenae: the sons of Pterelaus came with a band of Taphians and claimed the kingdom of Mestor, their maternal grandfather. Electryon paid no heed, and the quarrel over that inheritance set off the cattle-raid and the slaughter among his sons, binding Mestor's name to the violence that opened the Perseid path toward Amphitryon and Alcmena.4
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