Néstor

NÉSTOR

INGLÉS:

Nestor, whose father and brothers were killed by Heracles, was brought up among the Gerenians and later became the Leader of the Pylians against Troy.

When Heracles ravaged the Peloponnesus, destroying the kingdoms of Elis, Lacedaemon, and Pylos in Messenia, Nestor was a boy or a very young man. It is said that when Heracles occupied Pylos, he killed Nestor's father Neleus and all of Nestor's brothers. Nestor survived this massacre because at the time he was being brought up in Gerenia, another city in Messenia, or because he took refuge there escaping the war. During the battle for Pylos, Heracles wounded Hades, who was siding with the Pylians, for only in Pylos the lord of the Underworld was worshipped.

Nestor, whose father and brothers were killed by Heracles, was brought up among the Gerenians and later became the Leader of the Pylians against Troy.

When Heracles ravaged the Peloponnesus, destroying the kingdoms of Elis, Lacedaemon, and Pylos in Messenia, Nestor was a boy or a very young man. It is said that when Heracles occupied Pylos, he killed Nestor's father Neleusand all of Nestor's brothers. Nestor survived this massacre because at the time he was being brought up in Gerenia, another city in Messenia, or because he took refuge there escaping the war.

Nestor says that the war between Pylos and Elis took place after the invasion of Heracles, and that Neleus was still alive when this war, in which Nestor became a renowned warrior, took place. The Eleans, as it seems, took advantage of the previous war between Pylos and Heracles, a war in which the best Pylian warriors had perished, in order to oppress the city, taking their cattle and their horses. So when the Pylians reacted accordingly, Elis sent an army against them, and in it was fighting the molionides, twins who had two bodies joined to one another. When the army camped, Athena came from Olympus and instructed the Pylians to array themselves for battle. Though Neleus hid the horses because he feared for his son, whom he deemed unexperienced in war, he could not prevent Nestor from going into battle. The circumstances of his death are still unknown.

ESPAÑOL:

Néstor, cuyo padre y hermanos fueron asesinados por Heracles, se crió entre la Gereniansy, más tarde se convirtió en el líder de los pilios contra Troya.

Cuando Heracles devastó el Peloponeso, la destrucción de los reinos de Elis, Lacedemonia, y Pilos en Mesenia, Néstor era un muchacho o un hombre muy joven. Se dice que cuando Heracles ocupa Pilos, mató a Neleo, padre de Néstor y todos los hermanos de Néstor y Néstor sobrevivieron a esta masacre porque en ese momento estaba siendo criado en Gerenia, otra ciudad de Mesenia, o porque se refugió allí huyendo de la guerra.

 Néstor dice que la guerra entre Pilos y Elis se llevó a cabo después de la invasión de Heracles, y que Neleo estaba todavía vivo cuando ocurrió esta guerra, en la que Néstor se convirtió en un guerrero de renombre. Los eleos, se aprovecharon de la guerra anterior entre Pilos y Heracles, una guerra en la que los mejores guerreros de Pilio habían perecido, con el fin de oprimir a la ciudad, teniendo a su ganado y sus caballos. Así que cuando los pilios reaccionaron, en consecuencia, Elis envió un ejército contra ellos, y en él que luchan contra los molionides, los gemelos que tenían dos cuerpos unidos entre sí. Cuando el ejército acampó, Atenea fue desde el Olimpo y dio unas instrucciones a la matriz de los pilios para la batalla.

Neleo escondió los caballos porque temía por su hijo, a quien consideraba sin experiencia en la guerra y no pudo impedir que Néstor fuese a la batalla.

Las circunstancias de su muerte aún se desconocen.

María Cristina Delgado Gelo.