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

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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.