MANTO

Start Over

🌍 Pylos (Elis)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11308240" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11308240">📖 Strabo 8.3.7</span>
  • Information
    city in Elis
    Sometimes conflated with
    🌍 Pylos (Messenia)
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570639
    Founded by
    👤 Pylas
    Ruled by
    👤 Nestor
    Conquered by
    👤 Heracles
    Related Entities
    👤 Neleus (Pylian)👤 Pylas🌍 Pylos (Messenia)🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly)👤 Heracles👤 Athena👤 Hades🏺 the Bow of Heracles👤 Nestor🌍 Gerenia (Messenia)👤 Chloris (d. of Amphion)🌍 Orchomenos (Boiotia)🌍 River Anigros (Elis)👤 Telemachos🌍 Elis (region)🌍 Messene (Messenia)🌍 Elis (city)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 4.36.1-4.36.5📖 Pausanias 5.3.1📖 Pausanias 6.22.5-6.22.6📖 Pausanias 6.25.2-6.25.3📖 Pausanias 6.22.5📖 Pausanias 6.25.2-6.25.4📖 Strabo 8.4.4📖 Strabo 8.3.7📖 Strabo 8.3.19📖 Strabo 8.3.27📖 Strabo 8.3.28-8.3.29📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.676-2.707📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.536-12.579📖 Eustathios, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey 1394.42-1394.55
    Mentioned in Text
    PausaniasStraboOvid, MetamorphosesEustathios, Commentary on Homer's Odyssey
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Strabo 8.3.7
  • Cite as: '🌍 Pylos (Elis) ', MANTO, https://resource.manto.unh.edu/10146570 [last modified: 23 02 2026]
    Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC)