Her Hippostratus (did wed), a scion of Ares, the splendid son of Phyctes, of the line of Amarynces, leader of the Epeians.
When Althea was dead, Oeneus married Periboea, the daughter of Hipponoiis. Hesiod says that she was seduced by Hippostratus the son of Amarynces and that her father Hipponoiis sent her from Olenus in Achaea to Oeneus because he was far away from Hellas, bidding him kill her.
“She used to dwell on the cliff of Olenus the banks of wide Peirus.”
Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now Achaean.
Concerning the Myrmidons Hesiod speaks thus: “And she conceived and bare Aeacus, delighting in horses. Now when he came to the fuli measure of desired youth, he chafed at being alone. And the father of men and gods made all the ants that were in the lovely isle into men and wide-girdled women. These were the first who fitted with thwarts ships with curved sides, and the first who used sails, the wings of a sea-going ship.”
“The sons of Aeacus who rejoiced in battle as though a feast.”
He has indicated the shameful deed briefly by the phrase “to lie with her against her will,” and not like Hesiod who recounts at length the story of Peleus and the wife of Acastus.
“And this seemed to him (Acastus) in his mind the best plan; to keep back himself, but to hide beyond guessing the beautiful knife which the very famous Lame One had made for him, that in seeking it alone over steep Pelion, he (Peleus) might be slain forthwith by the mountain-bred Centaurs.
The author of the Cypria says that Thetis avoided wedlock with Zeus to please Hera; but that Zeus was angry and swore that she should mate with a mortal. Hesiod also has the like account.
“Peleus the son of Aeacus, dear to the deathless gods, came to Phthia the mother of flocks, bringing great possessions from spacious Iolcus. And all the people envied him in their hearts seeing how he had sacked the well-built city, and accomplished his joyous marriage; and they all spake this word: ‘Thrice, yea, four times blessed son of Aeacus, happy Peleus! For far-seeing Olympian Zeus has given you, a wife with many gifts and the blessed gods have, brought your marriage fully to pass, and in these halls you go up to the holy bed of a daughter of Nereus. Truly the father, the son of Cronos, made you very pre-eminent among heroes and honoured above other men who eat bread and con- sume the fruit of the ground.”
“For in common then were the banquets, and in common the seats deathless gods and mortal men.
. whereas Hesiod and the rest call her (Peleus’ daughter) Polydora.
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