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Perigune

Greek mythological figure

Summary

Greek mythological figure

In Greek mythology, Perigune () was the daughter of Sinis. Her name is also spelled Perigouna or Perigone. She is passingly mentioned as Perigenia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Mythology

Perigune is mentioned in only a few sources and the details are sparse. The most extensive surviving account comes from Plutarch, who states that, after Theseus killed her father, she hid herself in a bed of rushes and asparagus. When Theseus promised not to harm her, she emerged from hiding. She then bore Theseus Melanippus, who became the ancestor of the Ioxides of Caria. These people, Plutarch states, revered the asparagus and the rush and did not burn them. Afterwards Theseus gave her to Deioneus of Oechalia.

Pausanias also mentions that Theseus fathered Melanippus with the daughter of Sinis, but gives no further details. In the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus she – again referred to only as the daughter of Sinis – is listed as one of the women taken by Theseus. Athenaeus cites the fourteenth book of Istrus's Attika as the source of the information.

References

Bibliography

References

  1. Gantz (1993) p.251.
  2. ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Act [https://www.shakespeareswords.com/Public/Play.aspx?WorkId=4&Scene=1&Act=2#125977 II.i.78].
  3. Plutarch, ''Theseus'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg001.perseus-eng2:8 8.2–3].
  4. Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.25.7 10.25.7].
  5. Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng1:13.4 13.4] (=causabon page 557a).
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