Periboea

In Greek mythology, nine people shared the name Periboea (Περίβοια).

  1. Periboea was the daughter of either King Cychreus of Salamis or of Alcathous, her mother in the latter case being either Pyrgo or Evaechme, daughter of Megareus.[1] She married Telamon[2] and became and mother of Ajax.[3][4] She was among the seven young girls sent to Crete as retribution (see Minotaur); while on board the ship, Minos attempted to sexually abuse her but she was defended by Theseus,[5] with whom she later consorted.[6] Also known as Eriboea.[7][8][9][10]
  2. Periboea, daughter of the Giant Eurymedon. With Poseidon, Periboea was the mother of Nausithous.[11]
  3. Periboea, wife of Polybus, foster mother of Oedipus.[12]
  4. Periboea, a Naiad, wife of Icarius, mother of Penelope, Perilaus, Aletes, Damasippus, Imeusimus and Thoas,[13] presumably also of Iphthime.[14] Icarius' wife is alternatively known as Asterodia, Dorodoche[15] or Polycaste[16]
  5. Periboea, daughter of Hipponous and mother of Tydeus by Oeneus.[17]
  6. 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.[18]
  7. Periboea, eldest daughter of Acessamenus. She bore a son, Pelagon, to the river-god Axius.[19]
  8. Periboea, one of the Oceanids; mother of Aura by Lelantos[20]
  9. Periboea, mother, by Meges, of the Trojans Celtus and Eubius (Εὔβιος).[21]

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  1. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 43. 4
  2. ^ Plutarch, Parallel Lives, 27. 312b
  3. ^ Apollodorus, The Library, 3. 12. 7
  4. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 42. 1, 1. 17. 3
  5. ^ Bacchylides, Ode 17, 8-16
  6. ^ Pherecydes in Athenaeus, 13. 557b. A certain "Phereboea" is also mentioned by him among the wives of Theseus; she could be identical with Periboea
  7. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 6. 45
  8. ^ Sophocles, Ajax, 566
  9. ^ Pindar, Isthmian Ode 6. 65
  10. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
  11. ^ Homer, Odyssey, 7. 56-57
  12. ^ Apollodorus, The Library, 3. 5. 7
  13. ^ Apollodorus, The Library 3. 10. 6
  14. ^ Homer, Odyssey, 4, 797
  15. ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey, 15. 16
  16. ^ Strabo, Geography, 10. 2. 24; her sons by Icarius are called Alyzeus and Leucadius
  17. ^ Apollodorus, The Library 1. 8. 4
  18. ^ Apollodorus, Epitome of Book 4, 6. 20-21
  19. ^ Homer, Iliad 20. 142
  20. ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 48. 264 ff
  21. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 7. 606 ff

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