Galaxy/The codex of Pelagon

Pelagon (Ancient Greek: Πελάγων) of Pylos is a warrior whom Nestor arrays beside Alastor, Chromius, Haemon, and Bias when Poseidon rouses the Achaeans in Iliad 4. He is a native of sandy Pylos under Nestor's command and must be kept distinct from Pelegon/Pelagon father of Asteropaeus and from other Pelagon namesakes.

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I.Nestor's comrade

Iliad 4.295 names mighty Pelagon among the Pylians Nestor stations when the earth-shaker stirs the Achaean ranks. Beyond that muster-line he has no separate combat narrative in Homer.

A different Pelagon removes the spear from Sarpedon's thigh in Iliad 5 — a Lycian companion, not this Pylian. The atlas id pelagon-pylian is Nestor's man alone.

II.Homonyms

Distinct from pelegon-paeonian (Axius' son, father of Asteropaeus), from Pelagon of Phocis who gave Cadmus the cow, from the Calydonian hunter, and from Pelagon/Pelasgus son of Asopus.

AT A GLANCE

Greek namePelagōn (Πελάγων)
Typehero
DomainsPylian warrior · Nestor's comrade
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