L'Odissea

Franco Rossi

Rossi's Telemachy keeps Nestor's household at Pylos — Polycaste among the Neleid daughters who host Odysseus' son before the road to Sparta.

Odyssey

Homer

Homer's Polycaste, youngest daughter of Nestor, bathes Telemachus at Pylos and dresses him in a tunic and cloak — the Neleid hostess of the Telemachy.

Polycaste

Daughter of Nestor — later tradition sometimes makes her mother of Persepolis by Telemachus.

Telemachus

The guest Polycaste bathes — Odysseus' son whose Pylian welcome opens the search for his father.

Nestor

Polycaste's father — the aged counselor whose daughter completes the hospitality of Odyssey 3.