Periphetes

Role: son of Hephæstus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 1

At Epidaurus the Holy, while Theseus was clearing the road from Trœzen to Athens of evildoers, Theseus killed Periphetes, described as “the putative son of Hephæstus” and a fighter with a brazen club. Later material gives conflicting parentage for Periphetes: it calls Parthaon his son, and also calls Periphetes the son of Nyctimus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Theseus killed Periphetes while clearing the road from Trœzen to Athens of evildoers.(Book 2 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Epidaurus the Holy)
  • With: Theseus
  • “For Theseus cleared all the road from Trœzen to Athens of evildoers, having killed those whom I mentioned before, and, at Epidaurus the Holy, Periphetes the putative son of Hephæstus, whose weapon in fighting was a brazen club.”

Book 2 · Chapter 1

• parent: Hephæstus (The text describes Periphetes as the putative son of Hephæstus.) “Periphetes the putative son of Hephæstus”
• with Theseus (The surrounding passage states that Theseus cleared the road by killing the evildoers mentioned, including Periphetes.) “at Epidaurus the Holy, Periphetes the putative son of Hephæstus, whose weapon in fighting was a brazen club”
• enemies with Theseus “having killed those whom I mentioned before, and, at Epidaurus the Holy, Periphetes the putative son of Hephæstus, whose weapon in fighting was a brazen club”

Book 8 · Chapter 24

• child: Parthaon “Parthaon, the son of Periphetes”
• parent: Nyctimus “Periphetes, the son of Nyctimus”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.