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In Greek mythology, the name Periboea (/ˌpɛrɪˈbə/; 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, 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]

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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. 7.0 7.1 Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. 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, Erotica Pathemata 27
  13. Apollodorus, 3.5.7
  14. Apollodorus, 3.10.6
  15. Homer, Odyssey 4.797
  16. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 15.16
  17. Strabo, 10.2.24; her sons by Icarius are called Alyzeus and Leucadius
  18. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 133
  19. Apollodorus, 1.8.4
  20. Apollodorus, Epitome 6.20-21
  21. Homer, Iliad 21.142
  22. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 7.606 ff.
  23. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 10.6

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