Peisistratus
Greek · quartigod · trojan war · Recorded classification
Quartigod youngest son of the demigod Nestor of Pylos by an unregistered mother (Anaxibia daughter of Cratieus in Apollod. 1.9.9, or Eurydice daughter of Clymenus in Hom. Od. 3.451-452); tier = (0.5 + 0)/2 = 0.25. The courteous young prince of Pylos who first welcomes Telemachus, becomes his close companion, and drives him by chariot to Sparta and back in the Telemachy — and weeps at Menelaus's table for his brother Antilochus dead at Troy. He survives (no death/transformation attested), so NO lifecycle is authored; vitalStatus deceased reflects his eventual mortal end. Brothers Antilochus and Thrasymedes wired reciprocally in-batch; the mother is unregistered so only the father edge is set.
Parentage
- father: Nestor
Domains
- guest friendship
- companionship
- chariotry
Powers
- Welcomes and serves the guest in due order
- Moves the company to grief by remembrance of the dead
Epithets
- Νέστορος υἱός — son of Nestor Hom. Od. 3.36, 15.6, 15.46 (formulaic identification of Peisistratus) (primary)
- ὄρχαμος ἀνδρῶν — leader of men Hom. Od. 15.131, 15.151 (of Peisistratus) (primary)
Relations
- sibling: AntilochusElder brother Antilochus, slain at Troy before Peisistratus came of age; Peisistratus weeps for him at Sparta.Apollod. 1.9.9; Hom. Od. 4.155-167 (Peisistratus grieves his brother Antilochus, dead at Troy) (primary)
- sibling: ThrasymedesBrother; both are among Nestor's sons attending the household and sacrifice at Pylos in Odyssey 3.Apollod. 1.9.9; Hom. Od. 3.413-416 (the sons of Nestor, including Thrasymedes and Peisistratus, gathered at Pylos) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Homer, Odyssey 3.36-50, 3.400, 3.474-485, 4.155-202, 15.44-216 (Peisistratus hosts and escorts Telemachus) (primary); Apollodorus, Library 1.9.9 (youngest son of Nestor) (primary); Alfred Heubeck, Stephanie West & J. B. Hainsworth, A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey, vol. I (Oxford, 1988), on Od. 3.36 ff. (Peisistratus and the Telemachy) (secondary)
- parentage: Apollod. 1.9.9 (son of Nestor by Anaxibia daughter of Cratieus); Hom. Od. 3.451-452 (Nestor's wife Eurydice, daughter of Clymenus) (primary)