Neleides

Neleides (also Neleiades, Neleius and Neleidae) was a patronymic of ancient Greece derived from Neleus, son of the Greek god Poseidon, and was used to refer to his descendants.[1] In literature, this name typically designated either Nestor, the son of Neleus, or Antilochus, his grandson.[2][3][4] One notable offshoot of this family line was the Alcmaeonidae.[5]

References

  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Neleides". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 1150. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2258.html. 
  2. ^ Homer, Iliad viii. 100, xi. 617, x. 87, xxiii. 514
  3. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses xii. 553
  4. ^ Herodotus, v. 65
  5. ^ Smith, Philip (1867). "Alcmaeonidae". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 105–106. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0114.html. 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).