Pylos

[pee-laws, pahy-los, -lohs]

noun

1. Greek name of Navarino.

Pylos

/ ˈpaɪlɒs /

noun

1. Italian name: Navarino. Modern Greek name: Pílos. a port in SW Greece, in the SW Peloponnese; scene of a defeat of the Spartans by the Athenians (425 _bc ) during the Peloponnesian War and of the Battle of Navarino See Navarino

Example Sentences

‘The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece’ at the Getty Villa gives the first look outside Europe at the ancient Greek Griffin Warrior, whose grave held offerings of incomparable artistry.

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The captivating exhibition “The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece” at the Getty Villa is the first since January’s devastating Palisades fire shuttered the place for more than five months.

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First is the palace; next is a mysterious aristocrat known only as the Griffin Warrior; then comes exploration of beehive-shaped burial mounds; and, finally, artistic production in provinces around Pylos.

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Due west of Sparta, not far from the coast of the Ionian Sea, Pylos was home to the massive, so-called Palace of Nestor — a two-story extravaganza of four buildings with more than 100 rooms in 160,000 square feet, built for a powerful ruler whose connection to the legendary Nestor is just a poetic guess.

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But the gorgeous Pylos seal stone is of a different order.

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