Pirithous

Family: Achaeans · Role: hero · First appears: BOOK I

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Pirithous) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Pirithoüs) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Pirithous)

BOOK I

• friends with Nestor “I have been the familiar friend of men even greater than you are, and they did not disregard my counsels. Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous”

BOOK II

• child: Polypoetes “brave Polypoetes was leader. He was son of Pirithous, who was son of Jove himself”
• parent: Jove “He was son of Pirithous, who was son of Jove himself”

BOOK XII

• child: Polypoetes “Polypoetes, mighty son of Pirithous”

BOOK XIV

• parent: Jove “the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithous”

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.