Nestor

Family: Greeks · Role: aged warrior · First appears: Sophocles, Philoctetes — Scene 3

Life events

• Antilochus has died, leaving Nestor in distress.(Sophocles, Philoctetes — Scene 3)
  • With: Antilochus
  • “And Nestor, my old friend, good aged man, Is he yet living? Oft he would prevent Their evils, by the wisdom of his thought. NEO. He too is now in trouble, having lost Antilochus, the comfort of his age.”

Sophocles, Philoctetes — Scene 3

• child: Antilochus (Antilochus is identified as Nestor's lost child through the familial description.) “He too is now in trouble, having lost Antilochus, the comfort of his age.”
• friends with Philoctetes “And Nestor, my old friend, good aged man,”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Aulis — Scene 2

• with Alpheus (interaction) “from Pylos we beheld on the poops of Gerenian Nestor, a sign bull-footed to view, his neighbor Alpheus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.