In the genealogist's catalogue Perieres stands among the seven sons that Aeolus begat upon Enarete, daughter of Deimachus — brother to Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, and Magnes, a branch of the Aeolid trunk reaching south out of Thessaly.2Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.7.3

He took possession of Messene and married Gorgophone, daughter of Perseus, and by her had Aphareus, Leucippus, Tyndareus, and Icarius. Yet many say that Perieres was not the son of Aeolus but of Cynortas, son of Amyclas — so that in that telling his descendants are reckoned among the family of Atlas rather than the Aeolids.3Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.9.5

Elsewhere the line is sorted otherwise. As Stesichorus says, Cynortes had a son Perieres, who married Gorgophone the daughter of Perseus, and she bore Tyndareus, Icarius, Aphareus, and Leucippus. But some say instead that Aphareus and Leucippus were sons of Perieres son of Aeolus, while Cynortes begat Perieres, and Perieres begat Oebalus, from whom Tyndareus, Hippocoon, and Icarius were born by a Naiad nymph Batia — so the Spartan kings hang from Perieres only through his son Oebalus.4Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 3.10.3–3.10.4

The Messenians tell that when no descendant of Polycaon survived, they summoned Perieres, the son of Aeolus, to be their king; to him came Melaneus, a good archer and thought for that reason a son of Apollo, and Perieres gave him a part of the country to dwell in. By Gorgophone the daughter of Perseus he had Aphareus and Leucippus, who on his death inherited the Messenian kingdom — Aphareus holding the greater authority, and on his accession founding the city Arene.5Pausanias — Description of Greece 4.2.2, 4.2.4

Pausanias adds a note about his widow: Gorgophone, the Gorgon-killer's daughter, married Perieres son of Aeolus while still a virgin, and when he died she married Oebalus — the first woman, they say, to take a second husband, for before her wives lived out their widowhood unwed.6Pausanias — Description of Greece 2.21.7