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After Althaea's death Oeneus married Periboea, daughter of Hipponous. The author of the
Thebaid says that when Olenus was sacked, Oeneus received Periboea as a gift
of honor; but Hesiod says that she was seduced by Hippostratus, son of Amarynceus, and
that her father Hipponous sent her away from Olenus in Achaia to Oeneus, because
he dwelt far from Greece, with an injunction to
put her to death.1
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1 Compare Diod. 4.35.1ff., according to whom Periboea alleged that she was with child by Ares. Sophocles wrote a tragedy on the subject; a few fragments of it remain （The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, i.216ff.）.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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