- Information
- city in Messenia, kingdom of Nestor
- Sometimes conflated with
- 🌍 Pylos (Elis)
- Serves as entrance to
- 🌍 the Underworld
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Alastor (Pylian I) 👤 Antimenes (Pylian) 👤 Asterios (Pylian) 👤 Chromios (Pylian I) 👤 Deimachos (s. of Polycaon)👤 Epilaos 👤 Euagoras (Pylian) 👤 Eurybios (Pylian) 👤 Nestor 👤 Periclymenos (Argonaut) 👤 Pero 👤 Pylaon 👤 Tauros (Pylian)
- Place of death of
- 👤 Alastor (Pylian I) 👤 Asterios (Pylian) 👤 Deimachos (Pylian) 👤 Epilaos 👤 Euagoras (Pylian) 👤 Eurybios (Pylian) 👤 Eurymenes 👤 Neleus (Pylian) 👤 Nestor 👤 Periclymenos (Argonaut) 👤 Phrasios (Pylian) 👤 Pylaon 👤 Tauros (Pylian) 👥 the Sons of Neleus
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Nestor 👤 Thrasymedes (Pylian)
- Founded by
- 👤 Neleus (Pylian) 👤 Pylas
- Eponym
- 👤 Pylas
- Ruled by
- 👤 Cresphontes 👤 Neleus (Pylian) 👤 Nestor 👤 Pylas
- Conquered by
- 👤 Heracles 👥 the Heracleidai
- Destroyed by
- 👤 Heracles
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏛️ the House of Nestor (Pylos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Nestor (Pylos)
- Encompases
- 🏛️ the House of Nestor (Pylos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Nestor (Pylos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Thrasymedes (Pylos)
- Related Entities
- 🌍 Aipy (Messenia) 🌍 Amphigeneia (Messenia?) 🌍 Arene (Messenia?) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Argyphea (Messenia?) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Cape Geraistos (Euboia) 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 Caucon (Elis) 🌍 Ceos (island) 🌍 Chalcis (Elis) 🌍 Colophon (Ionia) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Crisa (Phocis) 🌍 Cyparisseis (Messenia) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Dorion (Messenia) 🌍 Doulichion (island) 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 🌍 Elis (city) 🌍 Elis (region) 🌍 Ephyra (Elis) 🌍 Gerenia (Messenia) 🌍 Helos (Messenia) 🌍 Hyameitis (Messenia) 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🌍 Mesola (Messenia) 🌍 Messenia 🌍 Metapontion (Italy) 🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Orchomenos (Boiotia) 🌍 Pharai (Achaia) 🌍 Pheai (Elis) 🌍 Pherai (Messenia) 🌍 Phylace (Thessaly) 🌍 Pieria (N. Greece) 🌍 Pteleon (Elis) 🌍 Pylos (Elis) 🌍 Pylos (Messenia) 🌍 Pylos (Triphylia) 🌍 Rhion (Messenia) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 Same (island) 🌍 Sidon (Phoinicia) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Stenycleros (Messenia) 🌍 Syrnos (Caria) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Tenedos (island) 🌍 Thera (island) 🌍 Thessaly 🌍 Thryon (Messenia) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Zacynthos (island) 🌍 the Jagged Islands 🌍 the Sanctuary of Nedousian Athena (Ceos) 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ Spring Crounoi (Elis) 🏛️ the House of Nestor (Pylos) 🏛️ the Palace of Odysseus (Ithaca) 🏛️ the Tomb of Nestor (Pylos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Thrasymedes (Pylos)🏺 the Bow of Heracles 🏺 the Club of Heracles 🏺 the Golden Wand of Hermes🏺 the Lyre of Apollo 🏺 the Pan Flute of Apollo (made by Hermes) 🏺 the Plectrum of Apollo 🏺 the Robe of Helen 🏺 the Silver Bowl of Phaidimos🏺 the Trident of Poseidon 👤 Aigimios 👤 Alastor (Pylian I) 👤 Amythaon 👤 Andraimon (Ionian) 👤 Antimenes (Pylian) 👤 Aphareus (Messenian) 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Aretos (Pylian) 👤 Asterios (Pylian) 👤 Athena 👤 Bias (Argive) 👤 Chloris (d. of Amphion) 👤 Chromios (Pylian I) 👤 Codros 👤 Cresphontes 👤 Cretan Exile (Odyssean persona) 👤 Deimachos (Pylian) 👤 Deimachos (s. of Polycaon)👤 Echephron (Pylian) 👤 Eidomene 👤 Epilaos 👤 Euagoras (Pylian) 👤 Eurybios (Pylian) 👤 Eurydice (Pylian) 👤 Eurymenes 👤 Eurytos (f. of Iphitos) 👤 Hades 👤 Hera 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Iphicles 👤 Iphiclos (s. of Phylacos) 👤 Iphitos (Oichalian) 👤 Laerces (Pylian) 👤 Melampous 👤 Melanthos (Athenian) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Neileus (Ionian) 👤 Neleus (Pylian) 👤 Nestor 👤 Odysseus 👤 Peiraios (Ithacan) 👤 Peisistratos (Pylian I) 👤 Penelope 👤 Periclymenos (Argonaut) 👤 Pero 👤 Perseus (Pylian) 👤 Phrasios (Pylian) 👤 Phylacos (Thessalian) 👤 Podaleirios 👤 Polycaste (Pylian) 👤 Poseidon 👤 Pylaon 👤 Pylas 👤 Stratios (Pylian) 👤 Tauros (Pylian) 👤 Telemachos 👤 Theoclymenos (s. of Polypheides) 👤 Thrasymedes (Pylian) 👤 Zeus 👥 the Cattle of Apollo👥 the Cattle of Phylacos 👥 the Caucones ethnic collective👥 the Cretan Priests of Apollo👥 the Heracleidai 👥 the Ionians 👥 the Pelasgians 👥 the Pylos contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Sons of Codros 👥 the Sons of Hippocoon👥 the Sons of Neleus 👥 the Suitors of Penelope on Ithaca
- Appears in
- 📜 Cypria Argumentum 4 West📜 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 388-439📜 Nostoi Argumentum 1 West📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.11-3.14📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.11📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.12📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.9📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.6.2📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.7.3📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.10.2📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.5📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 11.690📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.336📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 4.319📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 5.392📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 31 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 33 Most📜 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 349-367📜 Homer, Iliad 1.247-1.252📜 Homer, Iliad 11.670-11.695📜 Homer, Iliad 2.591-2.602📜 Homer, Iliad 5.381-5.415📜 Homer, Odyssey 1.271-1.305📜 Homer, Odyssey 11.235-11.259📜 Homer, Odyssey 11.281-11.297📜 Homer, Odyssey 13.250-13.286📜 Homer, Odyssey 15.182-15.557📜 Homer, Odyssey 15.202-15.214📜 Homer, Odyssey 15.222-15.264📜 Homer, Odyssey 2.326-2.330📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.1-3.69📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.151-3.183📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.356-3.570📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.371-3.385📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.404-3.463📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.464-3.469📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.477-4.19📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.75-3.101📜 Lucian, Essays in Portraiture 13📜 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.676-2.707📜 Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.401-6.674📜 Panyassis, Heracleia fr. 26 West📜 Pausanias 10.29.5📜 Pausanias 2.18.7-2.18.9📜 Pausanias 3.26.10📜 Pausanias 3.26.8📜 Pausanias 4.1.3-4.1.4📜 Pausanias 4.2.4-4.2.5📜 Pausanias 4.3.3📜 Pausanias 4.3.5-4.3.8📜 Pausanias 4.36.1-4.36.5📜 Pausanias 6.22.5-6.22.6📜 Pausanias 6.25.2-6.25.3📜 Pausanias 7.2.1-7.2.4📜 Pausanias 9.36.8📜 Pindar, Olympian 9 21-39📜 Pindar, Pythian 4 169-202📜 Pindar, Pythian 5 43-93📜 Pindar fr. 52d Snell-Maehler📜 Strabo 10.5.6📜 Strabo 14.1.3📜 Strabo 14.1.4📜 Strabo 6.1.15📜 Strabo 8.3.1📜 Strabo 8.3.28-8.3.29📜 Strabo 8.3.7📜 Strabo 8.4.7
- Mentioned in Text
- Cypria Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo NostoiApollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryD-Scholia, IliadHesiod, EhoiaiHesiod, Shield of HeraclesHomer, IliadHomer, OdysseyLucian, Essays in PortraitureOvid, MetamorphosesPanyassis, HeracleiaPausaniasPindar, Olympian 9Pindar, Pythian 4Pindar, Pythian 5PindarStrabo