Mestor
Multiple Greek mythological figures
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In Greek mythology, Mestor (/ˈmɛstər/; Ancient Greek: Μήστωρ, lit. 'adviser, counsellor') was the name of four men.
- Mestor, the son of Perseus and Andromeda, according to the mythographer Apollodorus. By Lysidice, daughter of Hippodamia and Pelops, he sired Hippothoe, who mothered Taphius by the god Poseidon.[1]
- Mestor, a son of the king Pterelaus, and thus a great-grandson of the above.[2]
- Mestor, a son of the king Priam. He is mentioned in the Iliad, where he, alongside Hector and Troilus, is praised in death by his father.[3] In the Bibliotheca, Achilles kills him on Mount Ida.[4] Dictys Cretensis also mentions his death,[5] but later goes on to state that he was taken captive by Neoptolemus, who later dressed up in Mestor's Phrygian clothes to deceive Acastus.[6]
- 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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
