King of the Lapiths at Larissa, son of Ixion in the genealogies, who married Hippodameia and drove the shaggy centaurs from Mount Pelium — and later bound himself with Theseus to marry daughters of Zeus, a vow that took both heroes to the house of Hades.1
Homer remembers him twice over: Zeus loved the wife of Ixion and she bore Peirithous, peer of the gods in counsel; and in the Catalogue the Lapith Polypoetes is son of Peirithous, whom immortal Zeus begat — born on the day Peirithous got vengeance on the shaggy centaurs and thrust them from Pelium to the Aethices.2⚖
Apollodorus counts him among the Calydonian hunters, son of Ixion from Larissa, and tells how he and Theseus swore each to marry a daughter of Zeus — Theseus taking the child Helen, Peirithous demanding Persephone herself. In Hades he was seated on the Chair of Forgetfulness and never returned.3⚖
Hyginus makes him son of Ixion and brother of Centaurus, a Thessalian, and lists him among the Argonauts. Pausanias saw his battle with the centaurs on the pediment at Athens — Peirithous in the centre, Eurytion seizing his bride, Caeneus and Theseus fighting at his side.4
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