Editing Peitho (section)

== Family ==
[[File:Fragment of a terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup) MET SF0728651b.jpg|thumb|278x278px|Fragment depicting Peitho, Aphrodite, and Eros. This skyphos fragment may be the earliest known artistic representation of Peitho,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rosenzweig|first=Rachel|title=Worshipping Aphrodite: Art and Cult in Classical Athens|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0472113323|location=Ann Arbor|pages=20}}</ref> circa 490 B.C.E. ([[Metropolitan Museum of Art|The Metropolitan Museum of Art]]).|alt=]]
Peitho's ancestry is unclear, as various authors provide different identities for her parents. [[Hesiod]] in ''[[Theogony]]'' identifies Peitho as the daughter of the Titans [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]] and [[Oceanus|Okeanus]], which would make her an [[Oceanid|Okeanid]] and the sister of notable goddesses such as [[Dione (Titaness)|Dione]], [[Doris (Oceanid)|Doris]], and [[Metis (mythology)|Metis]].<ref name=":02" /><ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+337&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Peitho 346–349] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+337&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130 362–366] </ref> According to the lyric poet [[Sappho]], she was the daughter of Aphrodite.<ref>[[Sappho]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sappho-fragments/1982/pb_LCL142.187.xml fr. 200 Campbell, pp. 186&ndash;7] [= Scholia on [[Hesiod]]'s ''Works and Days'', 73c]; Gantz, p. 104.</ref> [[Aeschylus]] identifies her as the daughter of Aphrodite in ''[[The Suppliants (Euripides)|Suppliant Women]] (Hiketides)'', but also describes her as the child of [[Ate (mythology)|Ate]] in ''[[Agamemnon (play)|Agamemnon]]''.<ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''Suppliant Women'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0016%3Acard%3D1034 1039].</ref><ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''Agamemnon'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0004%3Acard%3D385 385].</ref> [[Nonnus]] in his ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' describes the [[Charites]] (Graces), an ensemble of goddesses of grace and charm, as including Peitho, [[Pasithea]], and [[Aglaia (Grace)|Aglaia]], and all of them are identified as daughters of [[Dionysus]].<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', 24.261.</ref> The [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic era]] [[elegiac]] poet [[Hermesianax (poet)|Hermesianax]] also refers to Peitho as one of the Charites.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D35%3Asection%3D5 9.35.5]</ref> [[Alcman]] describes her as the daughter of [[Prometheus|Prometheia]] and the sister of [[Tyche]] and [[Eunomia]].<ref>[[Alcman]], Fragments 3 & 64.</ref>

Nonnus identifies Peitho as the wife of [[Hermes]], the messenger of the gods.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', 8.220 & 48.230.</ref> However, commentary on [[Euripides|Euripides']] ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' notes that Peitho is the wife of [[Phoroneus]], the primordial King of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]], and the mother of [[Aegialeus (King of Argos)|Aegialeus]], [[Apis of Argos|Apis]], [[Europs (mythology)|Europs]] and [[Niobe (Argive)|Niobe]].<ref>[[Scholia]] ad [[Euripides]], ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n229/mode/1up?view=theater 932]</ref> An alternative [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argive]] tradition describes her instead as the wife of [[Argus (king of Argos)|Argos]], Phoroneus's grandson.<ref name=":3" /><ref>Scholia ad Euripides, ''[[The Phoenician Women|Phoenissae]]'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaineuripi00schwgoog/page/n405/mode/1up?view=theater 1116]</ref> The [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] [[Encyclopedia|encyclopedic]] text, ''[[Suda]]'', states that the mother of [[Iynx]] was either Peitho or [[Echo (mythology)|Ekho]].