Perseides

Or Perseïades (Περσηϊάδης), Perseios (Περσεῖος), or Perseïos (Περσήϊος), a patronymic of Perseus, used to designate his descendants.1 But it is also used to designate the descendants of Perse and Perses, viz. Aeëtes and Hecate.2

References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad xix, 123; Thucydides, i, 9.
  2. C. Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica v, 582; vi, 495.

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.