←Galaxy/The codex of Peisistratus

Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Peisistratus.

On screen

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L'Odissea

Franco Rossi

Rossi's RAI Odyssey keeps Peisistratus beside Telemachus on the road from Pylos to Sparta — Nestor's youngest son as the companion who shares the chariot and the search for Odysseus.

In play

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Odyssey

Homer

Homer's Peisistratus welcomes Telemachus at Pylos and rides with him to Menelaus — the Neleid prince as model guest-friend on the Telemachy.

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Peisistratus (son of Nestor)

Youngest son of Nestor — carefully distinct from the later Athenian tyrant Pisistratus who claimed descent from him.

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Telemachus

Peisistratus' traveling companion — Odysseus' son whose Pylian friendship opens the road to Sparta and news of his father.

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Nestor

Peisistratus' father — the aged counselor of the Iliad whose youngest son hosts the next generation's quest.