Periphetes
Periphetes (/ˌpɛrɪˈfiːtiːz/; Ancient Greek: Περιφήτης) is the name of several characters from Greek mythology.
- Periphetes, son of Nyctimus and father of Parthaon.[1]
- Periphetes, also known as Corynetes (Κορυνήτης) meaning Club-Bearer from the club (κορύνη) which he carried, was a son of Hephaestus and Anticleia.[2] Periphetes was lame in one leg, like his father and had one eye like a Cyclops. He roamed the road from Athens to Troezen where he robbed travelers and killed them with his bronze club. Theseus encountered and killed him near Epidauros (See Plutarch, Life of Theseus, et al.).
- Periphetes, son of Copreus; he was killed during the Trojan war by Hector.[3]
- Periphetes, king of Mygdonia. He fought with Sithon for the hand of the latter's daughter Pallene and was killed.[4]
- Periphetes, a Trojan who was killed by Teucer.[5]
Other use
- Periphetes (insect) is a genus of stick insects in the subfamily Lonchodinae.
Notes
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 24. 1
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.59.2
- Homer, Iliad, 15. 638
- Conon, Narrations, 10
- Homer, Iliad, 14. 515
References
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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