Periphas

Periphas in Greek mythology may refer to:

1. One of the sons of Aegyptus. He married (and was killed by) Actaea, daughter of Danaus.[1]

2. A son of Oeneus.[2]

3. A son of Lapithes in Thessaly. He consorted with Astyagyia, daughter of Hypseus, and had by her eight sons, of whom the eldest, Antion, was a possible father of Ixion with Perimela.[3]

4. One of the Lapiths.[4]

5. An Attica autochthon, previous to the time of Cecrops I, was a priest of Apollo, and on account of his virtues he was made king; but as he was honoured to the same extent as Zeus, the latter wished to destroy him. At the request of Apollo, however, Zeus metamorphosed him into an eagle, and his wife likewise into a bird. [5][6]

6. A son of the Aetolian Ochesius, fell by the hand of Ares in the Trojan war.[7]

7. A son of Epytus, and a herald of Aeneas.[8]

8. A Greek who took part in the destruction of Troy.[9]

References

  1. ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. ยง 5
  2. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 2
  3. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 69. 2 - 3
  4. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 12. 449
  5. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 6
  6. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 7. 400
  7. ^ Homer, Iliad, 5. 842
  8. ^ Homer, Iliad, 17. 323
  9. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 2. 476

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).