Mestor
In Greek mythology, Mestor ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɛ|s|t|ər}}; Ancient Greek: Μήστωρ means "adviser" or "counsellor") was the name of four men.
- Mestor, a Mycenaean prince. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, he was the son of Perseus and Andromeda and the brother of Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Gorgophone. By Lysidice, daughter of Hippodamia and Pelops, Mestor became the father of Hippothoe, who mothered Taphius by the god Poseidon.Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.5 2.4.5]. Herodorus (FGrHist [https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0031.bnjo-1-ed-grc:f15 31 F15]) has their children as Alcaeus, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Mestor.
- Mestor, a son of king Pterelaus,Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.5 2.4.5]; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 932. thus a great-great-grandson of the above.
- Mestor, a son of King Priam. Apart from a single mention in the Iliad, where he is praised by his father,Homer, Iliad 24.257 he appears in the BibliothecaApollodorus, Epitome 4.3.32 and Hyginus.Hyginus, Fabulae 90 He was taken captive by Neoptolemus, who later dressed up in Mestor's Phrygian clothes to deceive Acastus.Dictys Cretensis, 6.9
- 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.Plato, Critias 114 c 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.Plato, Critias 114a-c 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.Plato, Critias 114d
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- 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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
- 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. [https://topostext.org/work/152 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital xLibrary.]
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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