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In Greek mythology, Dioplethes was a Phthian prince as son of King Myrmidon and possibly Peisidice (daughter of Aeolus), thus brother to Antiphus, Actor, [1] Erysichthon, [2] [3] Eupolemeia [4] [5] and Hiscilla. [6] In some accounts, he was the father of Perieres, King of Messenia. [7]

Notes

  1. Apollodorus, 1.7.3
  2. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.9b
  3. Aelian, Varia Historia 1.27
  4. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.54
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  6. Hyginus, DeAstronomica 2.14
  7. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.177

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