Neleus

And with them Neleian Periclymenus set out to come, eldest of all the sons of godlike Neleus who were born at Pylos; Poseidon had given him boundless strength and granted him that whatever shape he should crave during the fight, that he should take in the stress of battle.

The Argonautica 2008

From Argos came Talaus and Areius, sons of Bias, and mighty Leodocus, all of whom Pero daughter of Neleus bare; on her account the Aeolid

The Argonautica 2008

There they cast away their small anchorstone by the advice of Tiphys and left it beneath a fountain, the fountain of Artacie; and they took another meet for their purpose, a heavy one; but the first, according to the oracle of the Far – Darter, the Ionians, sons of Neleus, in after days laid to be a sacred stone, as was right, in the temple of Jasonian

The Argonautica 2008

Tyro who bore to Poseidon two sons, Pelias and Neleus; the latter of these, king of Pylos, refused Heracles purification for the murder of Iphitus, whereupon Heracles attacked and sacked Pylos, killing amongst the other sons of Neleus Periclymenus, who had the power of changing himself into all manner of shapes.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

From this slaughter Neleus alone escaped (frags. 13, and 10 – 12).

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Neleus and Pelias, married Cretheus, and had by him three sons,

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

And they reached Pylas, the stablished castle of Neleus, and the people were doing sacrifice on the seashore.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Neleus, descended from the same ancestors as the family of Codros and Melanthos, who had formerly become kings of Athens being settlers from abroad.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Peripatetics appear themselves, indeed, to have been accomplished and learned men, but of the writings of Aristotle and Theophrastus they had no large or exact knowledge, because Theophrastus bequeathing his books to the heir of Neleus of Scepsis, they came into careless and illiterate hands.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Nestor son of Neleus and the oldest of the Achaean captains, “the clear speaker of Pylos,” given to long-winded rants in council

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981