Peirithoos
mythological figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
One of the great heroes of Nestor's youth, recalled by Nestor as an example of heroes who once heeded his counsel.
Never again can I behold such men as Peirithoos and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Kaineus, Exadios, godlike Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals.
Little did they know that at the gates they should find two of the bravest chieftains, proud sons of the fighting Lapiths - the one, Polypoites, mighty son of Peirithoos, and the other Leonteus, peer of murderous Ares.
Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself - not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Peirithoos, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily-ankled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.
Odyssey
Hero, companion of Theseus, whom Odysseus wished but failed to see among the dead before fleeing in fear of the Gorgon.
And I should have seen still other of them that are gone before, whom I would fain have seen - Theseus and Peirithoos glorious children of the gods, but so many thousands of ghosts came round me and uttered such appalling cries, that I was panic stricken lest Persephone should send up from the house of Hades the head of that awful monster Gorgon.
It was wine that inflamed the Centaur Eurytion when he was staying with Peirithoos among the Lapiths.