Polybus

Family: Corinthian · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Polybus)

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• ward: Oedipus (Polybus's household took in the infant Oedipus.) “the neatherds of Polybus, king of Corinth , found the infant and brought it to his wife Periboea.”
• married with Periboea “Polybus, king of Corinth , found the infant and brought it to his wife Periboea.”
• child: Oedipus “On hearing that, and believing himself to be the son of his nominal parents, he left Corinth”

Apollodorus, Epitome 7

• courtship with Penelope “Agenor, Polybus, Polydorus”
• admired: Penelope “And from Zacynthos came forty—four: Eurylochus, Laomedes, Molebus, Phrenius, Indius, Minis, Liocritus, Pronomus, Nisas, Daemon, Archestratus, Hippomachus, Euryalus, Periallus, Evenorides, Clytius, Agenor, Polybus, Polydorus, Thadytius, Stratius, Phrenius, Indius, Daesenor, Laomedon, Laodicus, Halius, Magnes, Oloetrochus, Barthas, Theophron, Nissaeus, Alcarops, Periclymenus, Antenor, Pellas, Celtus, Periphus, Ormenus, Polybus and Andromedes.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.