Perimede (daughter of Aiolus)

Perimede ( Greek  Περιμήδη ) is in Greek mythology the daughter of Enarete and Aiolos , the progenitor of the Aioler .

She has seven brothers - Kretheus , Sisyphus , Athamas , Salmoneus , Deion , Magnes and Perieres - and four sisters - Kanak , Alkyone , Peisidike and Kalyke . Occasionally the sisters Tanagra and Arne and the brothers Makareus , Aethlios and Mimas are also mentioned.

With Acheloos , Perimede is the mother of Orestes and Hippodamas .

literature

• Otto Höfer : Perimede 4a . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 1969 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Perimede in the Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 7, 3.
2. ↑ Pausanias : Description of Greece 9, 20, 1.
3. ↑ Pausanias: Description of Greece 9, 40, 5.
4. ^ Hyginus Mythographus : Fabulae 242.
5. ↑ Pausanias: Description of Greece 10, 38, 4.
6. ↑ Pausanias: Description of Greece 5, 8, 2.
7. ↑ Diodorus 4, 67, 3.