Periphetes

• Periphetes, son of Nyctimus and father of Parthaon.
• Periphetes, also known as Corynetes meaning Club-Bearer from the club which he carried, was a son of Hephaestus and Anticleia. Periphetes was lame in one leg, like his father and had one eye like a Cyclops. He roamed the road from Athens to Troezen where he robbed travelers and killed them with his bronze club. Theseus encountered and killed him near Epidauros.
• Periphetes, son of Copreus; he was killed during the Trojan war by Hector.
• Periphetes, king of Mygdonia. He fought with Sithon for the hand of the latter's daughter Pallene and was killed.
• Periphetes, a Trojan who was killed by Teucer.

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• Periphetes is a genus of stick insects in the subfamily Lonchodinae.