Perses (son of Helios)
Perses ( Greek Πέρσης ) is a son of Helios and Perse or Perseis in Greek mythology .
Perses was the brother of Aietes , the king of Colchis , as well as the Kirke and the Pasiphae . After the Argonauts withdrew from Colchis, he disempowered his royal brother in order to be able to seize rule himself. According to Hyginus Mythographus , he received a warning from an oracle that a descendant of Aietes would kill him. This oracle later came true, for Perses was either killed by his returned niece Medea , who restored his rightful throne to her father Aietes, or, according to another version, he died by the hand of Medos , the son of Medea.
literature
- Ernst Kuhnert : Perses 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 1985 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Perses in the Greek Myth Index
Remarks
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 27; see. 244.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 28, 5.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fables 27.