Mestor

In Greek mythology, Mestor (/ˈmɛstər/; Ancient Greek: Μήστωρ means "adviser" or "counsellor") was the name of four men.

• Mestor, a Mycenaean prince. He was the son of Perseus and Andromeda and thus, brother of Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Sthenelus, Electryon, Cynurus, Gorgophone and Autochthe. By Lysidice, daughter of Hippodamia and Pelops, Mestor became the father of Hippothoe, who mothered Taphius by the god Poseidon.[1]
• Mestor, a son of king Pterelaus,[1][2] 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,[3] he appears in the Bibliotheca[4] and Hyginus.[5] 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]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.4.5
2. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 932
3. Homer, Iliad 24.257
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4.3.32
5. Hyginus, Fabulae 90
6. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 6.9
7. Plato, Critias 114 c

References

• 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. 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. 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital xLibrary.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.