Pirithous

Family: Larissa · Role: son of Ixion · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Pirithous) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Pirithoüs) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Pirithous)

Apollodorus, Library 1.8

• parent: Ixion “Pirithous, son of Ixion”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• admired: Persephone (Pirithous wooed Persephone.) “Pirithous, him who wooed Persephone in wedlock and was therefore bound fast.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 1

• friends with Theseus “And Theseus allied himself with Pirithous”
• courtship with Hippodamia “For when Pirithous wooed Hippodamia”
• courtship with Persephone “in the endeavor to win Persephone as a bride for Pirithous he went down to Hades.”
• with Hades (interaction) “Pirithous, therefore, remained bound for ever”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

• child: Polypoetes “Of the Gyrtonians, Polypoetes, son of Pirithous: thirty ships.”
• parent: Polypoetes “Polypoetes, son of Pirithous”

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