Nestor

Nestor, in Greek myth, son of Neleus and king of Pylos. He lived to a great age, and in Homer's Iliad is represented as having outlived two generations, while retaining considerable mental and physical vigour. He fulfils the role of an elder statesman, full of long-winded advice and inclined to be anecdotal. In the Odyssey he is shown as having returned safely from Troy to Pylos, where he entertains Odysseus' son Telemachus. For the death of his son see ANTILOCHUS. The Mycenaean vase of beaten gold known as the ‘cup of Nestor’ (Nat. Mus. Athens) is so called because it resembles (in simpler form) the great gold cup, brought by Nestor from Pylos, described in Iliad II.