Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Perieres.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus makes Perieres son of Aeolus king of Messene, husband of Gorgophone, father of Aphareus and Leucippus — and in the same reckoning Tyndareus and Icarius — the Aeolid hinge of Messenian and Spartan descent.
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Perieres (king of Messenia)
Aeolid prince of Messene — carefully kept distinct from genealogies that make Perieres a Spartan son of Cynortas or collapse him with Oebalus.
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Gorgophone
Perieres' wife, daughter of Perseus — the widow who later marries Oebalus, tying Messenian and Spartan houses through one Perseid bride.
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Aphareus
Perieres' son — king of Messene and father of Idas and Lynceus, the Apharetidae of the Dioscuri quarrel.