In Greek mythology, Mestor (/ˈmɛstər/; Ancient Greek: Μήστωρ, lit. 'adviser, counsellor') was the name of four men.
- Mestor, the son of Perseus and Andromeda, according to the mythographer Apollodorus. By Lysidice, daughter of Hippodamia and Pelops, he sired Hippothoe, who mothered Taphius by the god Poseidon.1
- Mestor, a son of the king Pterelaus, and thus a great-grandson of the above.2
- Mestor, a son of the king Priam. He is mentioned in the Iliad, where he, alongside Hector and Troilus, is praised in death by his father.3 In the Bibliotheca, Achilles kills him on Mount Ida.4 Dictys Cretensis also mentions his death,5 but later goes on to state that he was taken captive by Neoptolemus, who later dressed up in Mestor's Phrygian clothes to deceive Acastus.6
- In Plato's Critias, Mestor was the second of the fourth set of twins borne of Poseidon and the mortal, Cleito, and one of the first princes of Atlantis.7 His older twin brother was Elasippus, and his other siblings were Atlas and Eumelus, Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, and lastly, Azaes and Diaprepes.8 Mestor, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.9
Notes
Notes
- Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Mestor (1); Apollodorus, 2.4.5. Herodorus (FGrHist 31 F15) has their children as Alcaeus, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Mestor.
- RE, s.v. Mestor (2); Apollodorus, 2.4.5; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 932.
- Homer, Iliad 24.257.
- RE, s.v. Mestor (2); Apollodorus, E.3.32.
- Dictys Cretensis, 2.43
- Dictys Cretensis, 6.9
- Plato, Critias 114 c
- Plato, Critias 114a-c
- Plato, Critias 114d
References
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 8, Lyd – Mine, edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, Leiden, Brill, 2006. ISBN 9004122710.
- Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital xLibrary.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XV, Halbband 1, edited by Wilhelm Kroll, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1931. Wikisource.