Periopis

In Greek mythology, Periopis (Ancient Greek: Περιώπιδος) was a princess of Pherae as daughter of King of Pheres[1] and possibly, Periclymene, daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus.[2] She was the possible sister of Admetus,[3] Lycurgus,[4] Eidomene,[5] and Antigona.[2] Periopis was the mother of Patroclus by Menoetius.[6] Otherwise, the hero's mother was called Damocrateia,[7] Sthenele,[8] Polymele[9] or Philomela.[10]

Notes
  1. Apollodorus, 3.13.8
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  3. Apollodorus, 1.8.2; 1.9.14; 1.9.16 & 3.10.4
  4. Apollodorus, 1.9.14
  5. Apollodorus, 1.9.11
  6. Apollodorus, 3.13.8
  7. Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107
  8. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.14; on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.46.
  9. Apollodorus, 3.13.8 mentions the two other possible mothers of Patroclus: (1) Polymele, daughter of Peleus (according to Philocrates) and (2) Sthenele, daughter of Acastus.
  10. Eustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134; Hyginus, Fabulae 97; Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 430, Prologue 525 (Goldwyn and Kokkini, pp. 33, 41).

References
  • Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • 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.
  • 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


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