Piras (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Piras (Greek: Πείραντα) was a king of Argos,Hyginus. Fabulae, 124 otherwise also known as Piren, Peiren, Peiras, Peirasus and Piranthus.
== Family ==
Piras was the son of Argus and Evadne, daughter of river god Strymon while his brothers were, Ecbasus, Tiryns, Epidaurus, Criasus and according to some, Phorbas also. Piras's wife was Callirrhoe who mothered his sons, Argus,This Argus possibly be Argus Panoptes who was called the son of Arestor whom others also said to be his brother. Compare Apollodorus. Bibliotheca Book 2.1.3 and Hyginus. Fabulae 145 Arestorides and Triopas.Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.1.2, Pausanias. Description of Greece Book, Book 2.16.1, Hyginus. Fabulae, 145 Scholia. ad Euripedes. Oresteia, 920 According to Hesiod and Acusilaus, Peiren was Io's fatherApollodorus. Bibliotheca Book 2.1.3M.L. West, The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins (Oxford, 1985) 77 while Eusebius mentioned Callithyia as the daughter of Peiranthus.Plutarch in Eusebius. Preparation for the Gospel, 3.8 Io may be therefore identical to Callithyia as suggested by Hesychius of Alexandria.Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. Ὶὼ Καλλιθύεσσα
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NAME AND FAMILY OF PIRAS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NAME AND FAMILY OF PIRAS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NAME AND FAMILY OF PIRAS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NAME AND FAMILY OF PIRAS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NAME AND FAMILY OF PIRAS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	COMPARATIVE TABLE OF NAME AND FAMILY OF PIRAS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES
Relation 	Apollodorus' Bibliotheca 	Apollodorus' Bibliotheca 	Hyginus' Fabulae 	Pausanias' Description of Greece 	Eusebius' Preparation of the Gospels
Name 	Piras (Πείραντα) 	Piren or Peiren (Πειρῆνος) 	Peranthus or Piranthus 	Peiras (Πειράς) or Peirasus (Πείρασος) 	Peiras
Parents 	Argus and Evadne 	- 	Argus and Evadne 	Argus 	-
Siblings 	Ecbasus, Epidaurus, Criasus 	- 	Ecbasus, Criasus 	Phorbas, Tiryns, Epidaurus 	-
Wife 	- 	- 	Callirhoe 	- 	-
Children 	- 	Io 	Argus, Arestorides, Triopas 	- 	Callithyia
== Reign ==
Peiras was credited with the founding of the first temple of Hera in Argolis and appointed his own daughter Callithyia as the priestess. Of the statues of Hera, which Pausanias saw in the Heraeum near Mycenae, the most ancient was one made of the wild pear-tree from the wood about Tiryns, which Peirasus was said to have dedicated for the sanctuary. The Argives, when they took that city, transferred the carved image of the goddess to the Heraeum.Pausanias. Description of Greece, Book 2.17.5, The account of Pausanias and the mythographers, however, does not represent Peirasus as the artist of this image, as some modern writers suppose, but as the king who dedicated it.Compare Pausanias. Description of Greece, Book 2.16.1; Scholia. ad Euripedes. Oresteia, 920; Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.1.2  Eusebius. Praeparatio evangelica, 3.8; Friedrich Thiersch. Epochen der bild, 20
Peiras succeeded his father Argus while his son Triopas in turn followed him on the throne.
PIRAS' CHRONOLOGY OF REIGN ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	PIRAS' CHRONOLOGY OF REIGN ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	PIRAS' CHRONOLOGY OF REIGN ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES	PIRAS' CHRONOLOGY OF REIGN ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES
Kings of Argos 	Regnal Years 	Hyginus 	Pausanias
Precessor 	1600 	Argus 	-do-
Piras 	1575 	Peranthus 	Peirasus
Successor 	1550 	Triopas 	-do-
== References ==
== Sources ==
*William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. s.v. Peiranthus, Peirasus and Peiren. London (1873).
* Apollodorus. Bibliotheca. English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
* Hyginus. Fabulae. Translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
* Pausanias. Description of Greece. Translated by Jones, W. H. S. and Omerod, H. A. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
* Eusebius. Preparation of the Gospels. Translated by the Rev. Edwin Hamilton Gifford (1820-1905), edition of 1903.
Category:Greek Mythology