Periboea

For other uses, see Periboea (plant).

In Greek mythology, the name Periboea (/ˌpɛrɪˈbiːə/; Ancient Greek: Περίβοια "surrounded by cattle" derived from peri "around" and boes "cattle") refers to multiple figures:

• Periboea, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys.^[1] She was the mother of Aura by Lelantos.^[2]
• Periboea, daughter of the Giant Eurymedon and the mother of Nausithous with Poseidon.^[3]
• Periboea, daughter of either King Cychreus of Salamis or of King Alcathous of Megara, her mother in the latter case being either Pyrgo or Evaechme, daughter of King Megareus of Onchestus.^[4] She was ravished by Telamon who then fled away; when her father learned of that, he ordered for her to be cast in the sea, but the guard who was to perform that took pity on her and sold her away; the one who bought her happened to be Telamon.^[5] She became by him mother of Ajax.^[6][7] She was among the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur; while on board the ship, Minos attempted to sexually abuse her but she was defended by Theseus,^[8] with whom she later consorted.^[9][10] Also known as Eriboea.^[7][11]
• Periboea, an alternate name for Merope, the wife of King Polybus of Corinth and mother of Alcinoe.^[12] She was the foster mother of Oedipus, future king of Thebes.^[13]
• Periboea, a Naiad, wife of Icarius, mother of Penelope, Perilaus, Aletes, Damasippus, Imeusimus and Thoas,^[14] presumably also of Iphthime.^[15] Icarius' wife is alternatively known as Asterodia, Dorodoche^[16] or Polycaste^[17]
• Periboea, the Olenian daughter of Hipponous and mother of Tydeus and possibly Melanippus or Olenias by Oeneus.^[18] She was sent by his father to Oeneus because she was seduced by Hippostratus, son of Amarynceus.^[19]
• Periboea, one of the first two maidens sent by the people of Locris to the shrine of Athena at Troy, in order to relieve them of plague. The other was named Cleopatra.^[20]
• Periboea, eldest daughter of Acessamenus, and mother of Pelagon by the river-god Axius.^[21]
• Periboea, mother, by Meges, of the Trojans Celtus and Eubius (Εὔβιος).^[22]
• Periboea, daughter of Aeolus, the wind lord, and Telepora or Telepatra.^[23]

See also

• Naming citation for Jovian asteroid 12929 Periboea

Notes

1. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 270. ISBN 9780786471119.
2. Nonnus, 48.264 ff.
3. Homer, Odyssey 7.56-57
4. Pausanias, 1.43.4
5. Pseudo-Plutarch, Parallel Lives 27.312b
6. Apollodorus, 3.12.7; Pausanias, 1.42.1 & 1.17.3
7. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 41, Prologue 526. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
8. Bacchylides, Ode 17.8-16
9. Plutarch, Theseus 29.1
10. Pherecydes (fr. 153 Fowler) in Athenaeus, 13. 557a. A certain "Phereboea" is also mentioned by him among the wives of Theseus; she could be identical with Periboea
11. Sophocles, Ajax 566; Pindar, Isthmian Ode 6.65; Pausanias, 1.42.1, 1.17.3 & 1.6.45; Hyginus, Fabulae 14
12. Parthenius, 27
13. Apollodorus, 3.5.7
14. Apollodorus, 3.10.6
15. Homer, Odyssey 4.797
16. Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 15.16
17. Strabo, 10.2.24; her sons by Icarius are called Alyzeus and Leucadius
18. Scholia ad Euripides, Phoenissae 133
19. Apollodorus, 1.8.4
20. Apollodorus, E.6.20-21
21. Homer, Iliad 21.142
22. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 7.606 ff.
23. Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 10.6

References

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• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0198147404.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Lives with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882–1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. 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.
• Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Sophocles, The Ajax of Sophocles edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Sophocles, Sophocles. Vol 2: Ajax. Electra. Trachiniae. Philoctetes with an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 21. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4

External links

• Lyons, Deborah. Gender and Immortality - Appendix: A Catalogue of Heroines