Peisistratus of Pylos

Youngest son of Nestor of Pylos, given by his father as Telemachus's road-companion on the inland leg of the Telemachy. Together they drove the chariot two days east across the Messenian and Laconian hills, lodging overnight at Pherae with Diocles son of Ortilochus, and reached Menelaus's palace in Sparta on the evening of the second day (Homer *Odyssey* 3.482–497; 4.1–43). At Sparta he wept openly at Menelaus's recollection of Antilochus, his elder brother lost at Troy (*Od.* 4.186–202). On the return he asked to be set down at Pylos rather than carried back to Ithaca, since custom required him to bring word of the journey to his father (*Od.* 15.193–214). Distinct from the sixth-century Athenian tyrant of the same name.

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