Periphetes, also known as
Corynetes (Κορυνήτης) meaning Club-Bearer from the club (κορύνη) which he carried, was a son of
Hephaestus and
Anticleia[2] or of
Poseidon.[3] Periphetes was lame (possibly in his feet, πόδας) like his father and used a bronze club as a crutch. He roamed the road from
Athens to
Troezen where he robbed travelers and killed them with his club.
Theseus encountered and killed him near
Epidauros (See Plutarch, Life of Theseus, et al.).
Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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Periphetes, also known as
Corynetes (Κορυνήτης) meaning Club-Bearer from the club (κορύνη) which he carried, was a son of
Hephaestus and
Anticleia[2] or of
Poseidon.[3] Periphetes was lame (possibly in his feet, πόδας) like his father and used a bronze club as a crutch. He roamed the road from
Athens to
Troezen where he robbed travelers and killed them with his club.
Theseus encountered and killed him near
Epidauros (See Plutarch, Life of Theseus, et al.).
Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.