 With brief hints, a sequence of episodes is alluded to, in which we discern strife in Pylos between Melampus and Neleus, who usurps Melampus's "great high house", forcing him into heroic exile.Melampus spends a year as bondsman in the house of Phylacus, "all for Neleus' daughter Pero".At his extremity, Melampus is visited by "the mad spell a Fury, murderous spirit, cast upon his mind.