Editing Perigune

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{{short description|Greek mythological figure}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Perigune''' ({{Langx|grc|Περιγούνη}}) was the daughter of [[Sinis (mythology)|Sinis]].<ref>Gantz (1993) p.251.</ref> Her name is also spelled '''Perigouna''' or '''Perigone'''. She is passingly mentioned as '''Perigenia''' in Shakespeare's ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''.<ref>''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Act [https://www.shakespeareswords.com/Public/Play.aspx?WorkId=4&Scene=1&Act=2#125977 II.i.78].</ref>

== Mythology ==
Perigune is mentioned in only a few sources and the details are sparse. The most extensive surviving account comes from [[Plutarch]], who states that, after [[Theseus]] killed her father, she hid herself in a bed of rushes and [[asparagus]]. When Theseus promised not to harm her, she emerged from hiding. She then bore Theseus [[Melanippus]], who became the ancestor of the Ioxides of [[Caria]]. These people, Plutarch states, revered the asparagus and the rush and did not burn them. Afterwards Theseus gave her to [[Deioneus]] of [[Capture of Oechalia|Oechalia]].<ref>Plutarch, ''Theseus'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg001.perseus-eng2:8 8.2–3].</ref> 

[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] also mentions that Theseus fathered Melanippus with the daughter of Sinis, but gives no further details.<ref>Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.25.7 10.25.7].</ref> In the ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' of [[Athenaeus]] she – again referred to only as the daughter of Sinis – is listed as one of the women taken by Theseus. Athenaeus cites the fourteenth book of [[Istros the Callimachean|Istrus]]'s ''Attika'' as the source of the information.<ref>Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng1:13.4 13.4] (=causabon page 557a).</ref>

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book|last=Athenaeus |title=The Deipnosophists |translator-last=Yonge |translator-first=C. D. |year=1854 |publisher=Henry G. Bohn |url=http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-eng1:13.4}}
* {{cite book |last1=Gantz |first1=Timothy |title=Early Greek myth: a guide to literary and artistic sources |date=1993 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University press |isbn=0-8018-4410-X}}
* {{cite book|last=Pausanias |title=Description of Greece |volume=4 |translator-last=Jones |translator-first=W.H.S. |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1918 |url=http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:10.1.1}}
* {{cite book|last=Plutarch |title=Parallel Lives|volume=1 |translator-last=Perrin |translator-first=Bernadotte |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1914 |url=http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg001.perseus-eng2:1}}
* {{cite book |last=Shakespeare |first=William |title=The Works of Shakespeare |volume=2 |year=1842 |publisher=Whittaker & Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/workswilliamsha13unkngoog/page/n8/mode/2up}}

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