Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Neleus.
In play
Odyssey
Homer
Homer makes Neleus the father of Nestor of Pylos — the Neleid line that hosts Telemachus and remembers the generation before Troy. The king's name is the root of every Homeric glance at sandy Pylos.
Neleids
The Neleid house — Neleus, twin of Pelias by Tyro and Poseidon, founder-king of Pylos, father of Nestor and the brothers Heracles slew — remains the genealogical spine of Messenian and Homeric kingship.
Pylos
Sandy Pylos is Neleus' city in the epic tradition — the seat his son Nestor holds when Odysseus' son comes seeking news of his father.
Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus retells Tyro's twins by Poseidon: Pelias exposed on a mountain, Neleus founding Pylos — the handbook genealogy that fixed Neleus for later mythographers.