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In Greek mythology, the Perseids[1][2][3][4] (sing. Perseid;[5][6][a] Ancient Greek: Περσείδαι, romanized: Perseídai,[7][8][9] lit. 'those born of Perseus', sing. Περσείδης Perseídēs),[b] also called the Perseid dynasty,[11][12] the Perseid line,[13][14] or the House of Perseus, are the descendants of Perseus and Andromeda.
After the Greek Dark Ages, tradition recalled that Perseus and his descendants the Perseids had ruled Tiryns in Mycenaean times, while the allied branch descended from Perseus' great-uncle Proetus ruled in Argos.[15]
Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus; and two daughters: Gorgophone who married the King of Sparta Oebalus, and Autochthe who married the King of Athens Aegeus. Each of his sons went on to become leaders of men either by becoming kings and starting their own lines or founding different cities and settlements across the Mediterranean.
Perses was left in Aethiopia and was believed to have become an ancestor of the Persians.
Another line of descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, until Atreus, son of Pelops, got the kingdom.
The most renowned of the Perseids was the greatest Greek hero, Heracles son of Zeus and Alcmene, daughter of Electryon. Other famous Perseids include the Dioscuri sons of Tyndareus, Penelope daughter of Icarius and Clytemnestra daughter of Tyndareus. Further descendants can also be counted as part of the Perseid Dinasty, namely: Iphigenia, eldest daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; Tisamenus, son of Orestes and Hermione; and Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope.
The macedonian king Alexander the Great claimed descent, by way of his father Phillip II, from Temenus, a descendant of Heracles, thereby making him a very distant relation to the hero Perseus.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Blackwell 1735, p. 20.
- ↑ Gladstone 1858, p. 365.
- ↑ Zekiou 2019, p. 66.
- ↑ Smith 1875, p. 306.
- ↑ Bigg 1868, p. 21.
- ↑ Guest 1883, p. 287.
- ↑ Wallace 1927, p. 85.
- ↑ Christopoulos 1975, p. 136.
- ↑ Vannicelli 2012, p. 265.
- ↑ Peter 1882, p. 6.
- ↑ Grote 1869, p. 90.
- ↑ Frazer 1898, p. 160.
- ↑ Gillies 1787, p. 95.
- ↑ Mitford 1814, p. 4.
- ↑ Royal Houses of Argolis: Perseidai
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- Blackwell, Thomas (1735). An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer. London.
- Christopoulos, George A. (1975). The Archaic Period. Ekdotike Athenon. ISBN 978-0-435-36601-8.
- Frazer, J. G. (1898). Pausanias's Description of Greece. Vol. III: Commentary on Books II–V. London.
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- Gladstone, W. E. (1858). Studies on Homer and the Homeric age.
- Grote, George (1869). A History of Greece. Vol. 1. London.
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- Peter, Carl (1882). Chronological Tables of Greek History. Translated by Chawner, G. Cambridge.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Smith, William (1875). "Hēraclīdae". A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography. London.
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