The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Neleus

Also known as: rich Neleus · Role: king · First appears: Fable 26

Fable 26

  • servant: Battus (Battus tends Neleus’s forests, pastures, and mares.) “He was keeping the forests and the grassy pastures, and the set of fine-bred mares of the rich Neleus.[80]”

Fable 66

  • child: Pallas (father of Clytus and Butes) (One possible genealogy identifies Neleus as Pallas's father.) “This was either Pallas the son of Pandion, king of Athens, or of Neleus, the brother of Theseus.”
  • siblings with Theseus “This was either Pallas the son of Pandion, king of Athens, or of Neleus, the brother of Theseus.”

Fable 73

  • child: Nestor “He was the son of Neleus and Chloris”

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