InGreek mythology, the namePeriboea (/ˌpɛrɪˈbiːə/;Ancient Greek: Περίβοια "surrounded by cattle" derived fromperi "around" andboes "cattle") refers to multiple figures:

• Periboea, one of the 3,000Oceanids,water-nymph daughters of theTitansOceanus and his sister-wifeTethys.^[1] She was the mother ofAura byLelantos.^[2]
• Periboea, daughter of theGiantEurymedon and the mother ofNausithous withPoseidon.^[3]
• Periboea, daughter of either KingCychreus ofSalamis or of KingAlcathous ofMegara, her mother in the latter case being eitherPyrgo orEvaechme, daughter of KingMegareus ofOnchestus.^[4] She was ravished byTelamon who then fled away; when her father learned of that, he ordered for her to be cast in the sea, but the guard who was to perform that took pity on her and sold her away; the one who bought her happened to be Telamon.^[5] She became by him mother ofAjax.^[6][7] She was among the would-besacrificial victims of Minotaur; while on board the ship,Minos attempted to sexually abuse her but she was defended byTheseus,^[8] with whom she later consorted.^[9][10] Also known asEriboea.^[7][11]
• Periboea, an alternate name for Merope, the wife of KingPolybus of Corinth and mother ofAlcinoë.^[12] She was the foster mother ofOedipus, future king ofThebes.^[13]
• Periboea, aNaiad, wife ofIcarius, mother ofPenelope,Perilaus,Aletes,Damasippus,Imeusimus andThoas,^[14] presumably also ofIphthime.^[15] Icarius' wife is alternatively known asAsterodia,Dorodoche^[16] orPolycaste^[17]
• Periboea, theOlenian daughter ofHipponous and mother ofTydeus and possiblyMelanippus orOlenias byOeneus.^[18] She was sent by his father to Oeneus because she was seduced byHippostratus, son ofAmarynceus.^[19]
• Periboea, one of the first two maidens sent by the people ofLocris to the shrine ofAthena atTroy, in order to relieve them of plague. The other was namedCleopatra.^[20]
• Periboea, eldest daughter ofAcessamenus, and mother ofPelagon by the river-godAxius.^[21]
• Periboea, mother, byMeges, of theTrojansCeltus andEubius (Εὔβιος).^[22]
• Periboea, daughter ofAeolus, the wind lord, andTelepora orTelepatra.^[23]

• Naming citation for Jovian asteroid12929 Periboea

• Athenaeus of Naucratis,The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis,Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Fowler, R. L. (2000),Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000.ISBN 978-0198147404.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer,The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus,Lives with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus,Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Nonnus of Panopolis,Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863–1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis,Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Parthenius,Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882–1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius,Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar,Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar,The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Sophocles,The Ajax of Sophocles edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Sophocles,Sophocles. Vol 2: Ajax. Electra. Trachiniae. Philoctetes with an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 21. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo,The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo,Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tzetzes, John,Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4

• Lyons, Deborah. Gender and Immortality - Appendix: A Catalogue of Heroines

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