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== Family ==
Neleus was the son of [[Poseidon]] and [[Tyro]], and brother of [[Pelias]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157]</ref> According to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], Neleus was the son of [[Cretheus]], King of [[Iolcus]], who was himself a son of [[Aeolus (son of Hippotes)|Aeolus]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.4.2.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Neleus 4.2.5]</ref>

With [[Chloris of Pylos|Chloris]],<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' 11.284: "the youngest daughter"; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.36.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Neleus 9.36.8]; [[Scholia]] ad ''Odyssey'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain06dindgoog/page/496/mode/1up?view=theater 11.281] citing [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA338 fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338]; see [[Strabo]], 8.3.19</ref> Neleus was the father of [[Pero (princess)|Pero]], [[Periclymenus]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Neleus 1.9.16]</ref> [[Alastor]], [[Chromius]], [[Asterion|Asterius]], [[Deimachus (mythology)|Deimachus]], [[Epilaus]], [[Eurybius]], [[Eurymenes]], [[Evagoras (mythology)|Evagoras]], [[Phrasius]], [[Pylaon]], [[Taurus (mythology)|Taurus]] and Nestor. Some say that Chloris was mother only of three of Neleus' sons (Nestor, Periclymenus and Chromius), whereas the rest were his children by different women,<ref>Aristarchus in [[scholia]] on [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 11.692</ref><ref>Scholia on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], 1.152 — apparently following ''Odyssey'' 11.285, where only Nestor, Chromius and Periclymenus are enumerated</ref> but other accounts explicitly disagree with the statement.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 1.9.9; [[Diodorus Siculus]], 4.68.6; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#10 10],  [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#273 273]</ref> Otherwise, the mother of Nestor was called [[Polymede]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=[[Tzetzes]]|first=John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=39, Prologue 517|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref>