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Perses

3. A son of Helios and Perse, and brother of Aeetes and Circe. (Apollod. 1.9.28; Hygin. Fat. 244. A The Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (3.200) calls him as well as Perses No. 1., Perseus, and king of Tauris. (Comp. Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1175.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.