Peirithoos

Peirithoos Pirithous Peirithoos, son of Zeus

• Paus. 5.10.8
• son of Ixion, hunts the Calydonian boar: Apollod. 1.8.2
• hunts Calydonian boar: Paus. 8.45.7
• father of Polypoetes: Apollod. 3.10.7, Apollod. E.3.13
• friend of Theseus: Paus. 10.29.9
• his covenant with Theseus: Paus. 1.18.4
• goes with Theseus to Lacedaemon and helps him to carry off Helen: Paus. 1.18.4, Paus. 3.18.15, Apollod. 2.3.2
• goes with Theseus to Thesprotis: Paus. 1.17.4, Paus. 1.18.4, Paus. 2.22.6
• woos Persephone: Apollod. 2.5.12
• tries to win Persephone to wife, but is detained with Theseus in Hades: Apollod. 2.3.2
• seen in Hades by Herakles, who fails to rescue him: Apollod. 2.5.12, Apollod. 2.5.12
• his marriage with Hippodamia: Apollod. 2.3.1
• his wedding: Paus. 5.10.8
• aided by Theseus in his war with the centaurs: Apollod. E.1.16, Apollod. E.1.20
• his shrine: Paus. 1.30.4
• painted with Theseus by Panaenus at Olympia: Paus. 5.11.5and by Polygnotus at Delphi: Paus. 10.29.9
• sculptured in gable of temple of Zeus at Olympia: Paus. 5.10.8, and in gable of temple of Athena Alea at Tegea: Paus. 8.45.7