Periboea was a wife of Oeneus of Calydon and, in the dominant tradition, the mother of the hero Tydeus.1
After Althaea's death, Oeneus, king of Calydon, married Periboea, daughter of Hipponous. The circumstances of the match were variously told: the author of the Thebaid said that when Olenus was sacked, Oeneus received Periboea as a gift of honour from the spoils.2
Apollodorus preserves two darker variants of how she came to Oeneus. By the account he ascribes to Hesiod, Periboea was seduced by Hippostratus, son of Amarynceus, and her father Hipponous sent her from Olenus in Achaia to Oeneus, who dwelt far from Greece, with an injunction that she be put to death. Others said instead that Hipponous discovered his daughter had been debauched by Oeneus himself, and so sent her to him already with child.3
Hyginus twice names her the captive Periboea, a Calydonian, and makes her by Oeneus the mother of Tydeus, the fierce hero who was driven from home for killing his brother and who marched among the Seven against Thebes.4
By Periboea, Oeneus begat Tydeus, in the line most widely followed. Yet the parentage was contested: Apollodorus reports that Pisander made Gorge, Oeneus' own daughter, the mother of Tydeus instead, holding that Zeus willed Oeneus to fall in love with his own child.5
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