Notes on the current edition
Library
1.
Compare
Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 175 (vol. i. pp. 444ff., 447, ed. Muller)
;
Ant. Lib. 38
;
Diod. 4.72.6
;
Scholiast on Aristoph. Cl. 1063
;
Eustathius on Hom. Il. ii.684, p. 321
. There are some discrepancies in these accounts. According to Tzetzes and the Scholiast on Aristophanes, the man who purified Peleus for the murder of Phocus was Eurytus (not Eurytion), son of Actor. According to Antoninus Liberalis, he was Eurytion, son of Irus. According to Diodorus, he was Actor, king of the country, who died childless and left the kingdom to Peleus. Eustathius agrees that the host of Peleus was Actor, but says that he had a daughter Polymela, whom he bestowed in marriage on Peleus along with the kingdom. From
Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron pp. 444ff.
we learn that the purification of Peleus by Eurytus (Eurytion) was recorded by Pherecydes, whom Apollodorus may here be following.
2.
See
Hom. Il. 16.173-178
, who says that Polydora, daughter of Peleus, had a son Menesthius by the river Sperchius, though the child was nominally fathered on her human husband Borus, son of Perieres. Compare
Heliodorus, Aeth. ii.34
. Hesiod also recognized Polydora as the daughter of Peleus (
Scholiast on Hom. Il. xvi.175
). Homer does not mention the mother of Polydora, but according to Pherecydes she was Antigone, daughter of Eurytion (
Scholiast on Hom. Il. 16.173-178
). Hence it is probable that here, as in so many places, Apollodorus followed Pherecydes. According to Staphylus, in the third book of his work on
Thessaly, the wife of Peleus and mother of Polydora was Eurydice, daughter of Actor (
Scholiast on Hom. Il. 16.173-178
). A little later on (Apollod. 3.13.4) Apollodorus says that Peleus himself married Polydora, daughter of Perieres, and that she had a son Menesthius by the river Sperchius, though the child was nominally fathered on Peleus. In this latter passage Apollodorus seems to have fallen into confusion in describing Polydora as the wife of Peleus, though in the present passage he had correctly described her as his daughter. Compare
Hofer, in W. H. Roscher,
Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie, iii.2641ff.
