Pylos : name of three places in the Peloponnesus. It lay at the north end of Navarino Bay of the Ionian Sea, & was ruled by Nestor. In Sri Aurobindo’s Ilion Pylos refers to the city in the southwest, in Messenia.
... kings and heroes of the various domains of Greece, and it took ten whole years to gather the Greek army. Among those who joined were Odysseus, king of Ithaca, Achilles of Phthia, Nestor, king of Pylos; Diomedes, the hero of Aetolia, Ajax, the Telamonian, Ajax the Lorcian, Idas, king of Crete and Idomeneus. When the fleet was ready for the departure in the harbour of Aulis, the winds stopped ...
... then Orestes' speed to the stubborn might of Aeneas, Paris' fatal shafts and the missiles of Penthesilea. Others meanwhile, a puissant screen of our bravest and strongest, Fighting shall hold back Pylos and Argolis, Crete and the Locrian. Thou, Deiphobus, front the bronze-clad stern Diomedes, I with Polydamas' spear will dare to restrain and discourage Ajax' feet though they yearn for pursuit and ...
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