Periphetes

Periphetes in Wikipedia

Periphetes is the name of two characters from Greek mythology. The most prominent Periphetes, also known as Corynetes or the Club-Bearer, was a son of Hephaestus and Anticleia. Like his father, he was lame in one leg with only one eye as a Cyclopes would have. roamed the road from athens to trozen where he robbed travellers and killed them with...

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Periphetes in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Περιφήτης). 1. A son of Hephaestus and Anticleia, was surnamed Corynetes, that is, Club-bearer, and was a robber at Epidaurus, who slew the travellers he met with an iron club. Theseus at last slew him and took his club for his own use. (Apollod. 3.16.1; Plut. Thes 38; Paus 2.1.4; Ov. Met. 7.437.) 2. A son of Copreus of Mycenae, was slain at ...

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