Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Periboea.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus names the naiad Periboea as consort of Icarius and mother of Penelope — the Spartan spring-nymph behind Odysseus' faithful wife.
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Penelope
Periboea's daughter by Icarius — the queen of Ithaca whose maternal stem is the Spartan naiad, not the Calydonian or Corinthian Periboeas.
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Icarius (Spartan)
Periboea's husband — father of Penelope who races the suitors and follows his daughter's bridal car in tears.
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Odyssey
Homer
Homer's Penelope is daughter of Icarius; later genealogists supply Periboea as the naiad mother who completes the Spartan stem.