In Greek mythology, the name Perimede (/ˌpɛrɪˈmiːdi/; Ancient Greek: Περιμήδη "very cunning" or "cunning all round", derived from peri "round" and medea, "cunning" or "craft') refers to:
- Perimede, a Thessalian princess as the daughter of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. She was the sister of Salmoneus, Athamas, Sisyphus, Cretheus, Perieres, Deioneus, Magnes, Calyce, Canace, Alcyone and Pisidice. Perimede was the mother of Hippodamas and Orestes by the river god Achelous.[1] In a rare account, Perimede was called the mother of Pelasgus by Phoroneus.[2]
- Perimede, a Calydonian princess as the daughter of King Oeneus, mother of Astypalaea and Europe by Phoenix (son of Agenor).[3]
- Perimede, other name for Polymede, mother of Jason by Aeson.[4]
- Perimede, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra better known as Iphigenia.[5]
- Perimede, a witch, expert in herbs and poisons, described as "fair-haired".[6] See Agamede.[7]
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a); Apollodorus, 1.7.3
- ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.28a
- ^ Pausanias, 7.4.1
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.27, fn. 2 by Sir James George Frazer
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 23(a)
- ^ Theocritus, Idylls 2.16; Propertius, Elegies 2.4.8
- ^ According to scholia on Theocritus 2.16, they were one and the same person.