Periphas

The name of various mythical personages, among whom a son of Oeneus,1 a son of Lapithes in Thessaly,2 one of the Lapiths,3 a son of Epytus, and a herald of Aeneas,4 and a Greek who took part in the destruction of Troy.5

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References

Notes

  1. Antoninus Liberalis, 2.
  2. Diodorus Siculus. Historical Library iv, 69; v . 61.
  3. Ovid. Metamorphoses xii, 449.
  4. Homer. Iliad xvii, 323.
  5. Virgil. Aeneid ii, 476.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

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