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(European mythology)
The elder statesman of the Greeks during the Trojan War. He was ‘the master of the courteous word, the clear-voiced orator’, who tried to reconcile the enraged Achilles to Agamemnon, the commander-in-chief of the Greek host, when they fell out on the plain of Troy.
Said to have lived to a very great age, Nestor was the son of Neleus, who assumed power in Messenia and built a palace at Pylos. For Homer the generosity of Pylos was renowned, guests ‘ever finding their golden cups brimming with wine’: modern archaeology has perhaps found some evidence of this legendary wealth, in the form of innumerable drinking vessels and the extensive lists of provisions used at sacrificial feasts. When at Athena's instigation Odysseus' son Telemachus arrived by boat, Homer tells how he encountered King Nestor on shore with his followers sacrificing eighty-one ‘jet black bulls to Poseidon, the earth-shaker, god of the sable locks’. The Linear B tablets recovered from the palace archive actually confirm the initial pre-eminence of Poseidon at Pylos, since the offerings to him exceed those awarded to Zeus.
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Nes·tor
(nĕs'tər, -tôr') 
n. Greek Mythology
n. Greek Mythology
- A hero celebrated as an elderly and wise counselor to the Greeks at Troy.
- often nestor A venerable and wise old man.
[Greek Nestōr.]
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In Greek legend, the king of Pylos in Elis. All his brothers were killed by Heracles, but Nestor survived. In Homer's Iliad he appeared as an elder statesman who entertained the warriors with tales of his youthful exploits. He brought 90 ships to aid the Greeks in their war against Troy. When, at the war's end, the Greeks sailed for home, Nestor went in a different direction and missed the storm Athena sent to disperse their ships. In the Odyssey Telemachus, son of Odysseus, came to Elis looking for his father, and Nestor entertained him.
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Nestor (nĕs'tər), d. 1115?, Russian chronicler. A monk in a Kiev monastery, he wrote a life of saints Boris and Gleb and of the prior of his monastery St. Feodosi. Until recently the authorship of the Russian Primary Chronicle, also known as The Tale of Bygone Years and as the Chronicle of Nestor, was attributed to him. It is now believed that he was the author of one of its versions.
Bibliography
See Russian Primary Chronicle (tr. by S. H. Cross, 1953, repr. 1968).
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Arts, literature, and entertainment
- Nestor (mythology), the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology
- "Nestor", a chapter in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce
- Nestor Studios, first-ever motion picture studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey, a Christmas television program
- A fictional race in the movie Battle Beyond the Stars
Fictional characters
- Nestor (Tintin character), from The Adventures of Tintin series of comic books by Hergé
- Nestor Burma, created by French crime novelist Léo Malet
- Nestor, a character in the animated television series Shorty McShorts' Shorts
- Néstor, a fictional penguin from the film Happy Feet
- A nickname of NS-series robots in the series of short-stories and film I, Robot
- Prince Nestor, a character in the animated television series World of Quest
- Nestor Willow, a character in the Caprica television series
People and names
- Nestor (surname), anglicised form of Mac an Adhastair, and Irish family
- Nestor (given name), a name of Greek origin, from Greek mythology
- Nestor the Chronicler (c.1056-c.1114), reputed author of the earliest East Slavic chronicle
- Nestor of Magydos or Saint Nestor, Christian saint
- Nestor of Thessaloniki, another saint
- Nestorius (c.386–c.451), Patriarch of Constantinople, 428-431
Science and technology
- Nestor (genus), a genus of parrots in ornithology
- NESTOR Project, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope
- NESTOR (encryption), a family of voice encryption devices used by the United States during the Vietnam War era
Other uses
- Nestoras, a municipality in Messenia, Greece
- Nestor (solitaire), a card game
- HMS Nestor, the name of three ships of the Royal Navy
- A West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
- Nestorianism, a doctrine that Jesus exists as two persons, one divine and the other human
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