Periopis

{{Short description|Daughter of Pheres in Greek mythology}}

In Greek mythology, Periopis (Ancient Greek: Περίωπις) was a princess of Pherae as daughter of King of PheresApollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 3.13.8] and possibly, Periclymene, daughter of King Minyas of Orchomenus.Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#14 14] She was the possible sister of Admetus,Apollodorus, 1.8.2; 1.9.14; 1.9.16 & 3.10.4 Lycurgus,Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.14 1.9.14] Eidomene,Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.11 1.9.11] and Antigona. Periopis was the mother of Patroclus by Menoetius.Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 3.13.8] Otherwise, the hero's mother was called Damocrateia,Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107 Sthenele,Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.14; on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.46. PolymeleApollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.13.8 3.13.8] mentions the two other possible mothers of Patroclus: (1) Polymele, daughter of Peleus (according to Philocrates) and (2) Sthenele, daughter of Acastus. or Philomela.Eustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134; Hyginus, Fabulae 97; Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 430, Prologue 525 (Goldwyn and Kokkini, pp. 33, 41).