Periboia (wife of Oineus)
Periboia ( Greek Περίβοια ) is a female figure in Greek mythology . She was the daughter of King Hipponoos of Olenos.
Periboia became the second wife of King Oineus of Kalydon, to whom she bore Tydeus . There are several variants of the course of how the marriage of Periboia and Oineus took place, which are incompatible.
- According to a surviving fragment, the epic Thebais tells that Oineus received Periboia as spoils of war after taking the city of Olenos .
- Another version claims that Hipponoos sent his daughter pregnant when he was told that she had given in to Oineus' advances.
- Hesiod states that Periboia was seduced by Hippostratus , son of Amarynkeus; then her father sent her to Oineus, who was supposed to execute her.
- According to Diodorus , Hipponoos commissioned the Oineus to kill his daughter, but the historian gives the reason that Periboia was expecting a child from Ares ; however, Oineus did not carry out the order, but on the contrary took Periboia as his wife, since his first wife Althaia had not died long before that.
literature
- Hans von Geisau: Periboia 6). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Sp. 633.