Arestor

Arestor appears in Greek literary and reference traditions as an Argive princely forebear whose primary role is genealogical. Sources identify him as husband of Mycene (daughter of Inachus), which links him to the eponymy of the city Mycenae. In various accounts he is named as the father of Argus Panoptes (hence the patronymic Arestorides) and is also cited in some traditions as father of Pelasgus (father of Lycaon of Arcadia). Some source summaries indicate that there may be two distinct figures named Arestor in the tradition — one associated with Argus Panoptes and another said to be father of an Argus who was a builder of the Argo — reflecting local and literary variants in Greek genealogies.

No surviving descriptions in the supplied sources give physical attributes, appearance, or iconography for Arestor. He is known only through genealogical listings and narrative references as an Argive prince or nobleman; the available materials therefore present him as a named ancestral node rather than as a figure represented with consistent visual features in the literary record.

The sources attribute no supernatural powers, magical functions, or independent mythic deeds to Arestor. His 'activity' in the tradition is genealogical: being husband to Mycene and (in various accounts) father of one or more figures named Argus and of Pelasgus. His cultural significance derives from lineage and eponymy (linking persons to place-names and heroic pedigrees) rather than from any attested cultic, magical, or combative capacities.