the ehoie of salmoneus' daughter tyro provides the transition to the families of the male aeolids. as king of elis, salmoneus forced his subjects to worship him as zeus and simulated the god's thunder and lightning by dragging bronze cauldrons from his chariot and throwing torches through the air. the real zeus destroyed king and subjects alike, but spared tyro and conducted her to the house of her uncle cretheus in thessaly because she wrangled with her impious father. there she became enamored of the river enipeus, but poseidon had his own designs upon tyro and in the guise of the river lay with her, siring neleus and pelias. the brothers did not get along, and zeus gave them different realms to rule: pelias received as his lot iolcos; to neleus fell pylos in the western peloponnese. the house of neleus now takes center-stage. heracles sacked pylos, killing all the male neleids, save nestor who was off in gerenia, another messenian city. periclymenus, a son of neleus to whom poseidon had granted the ability to change shape, was pylos' only bulwark against the onslaught of heracles, and the "catalogue"-poet granted him a brief "aristeia" which ended when athena pointed out that the bee on heracles' chariot was actually the pylian defender. following the account of nestor's marriage and family, the contest for neleus' daughter pero was narrated. the father would give her hand to whoever could rustle the cattle of iphicles from phylace, a feat accomplished by bias with the help of his brother melampus. the poet then turned to the family of pelias as the last assignable papyrus fragment from book 1 breaks off. it is likely that tyro's children by cretheus—aeson, pheres and amythaon—followed, and there might have been room in the book to at least start the family of cretheus' brother athamas.