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en-wikipedia-org-3426		Pirithous - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1698	266	76	By his wife, he became the father of Polypoetes,[6] one of the Greek leaders during the Trojan War. Peirithous was also the close friend of the hero Theseus. In the Iliad I, Nestor numbers Pirithous and Theseus "of heroic fame" among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, "the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe whom they utterly destroyed." No trace of such an oral tradition, which Homer's listeners would have recognized in Nestor's allusion, survived in literary epic. Pirithous, Hippodamia (here labeled under the name Laodameia), a Centaur, and Theseus, on an Apulian red-figure calyx-krater, 350-340 BC The rescue of Theseus and Pirithous acquired a humorous tone in the realm of Attic comedy, in which Heracles attempted to free them from the rock to which they had been bound together in the Underworld (for having tried to carry off Persephone). Pirithous was worshiped at Athens, along with Theseus, as a hero.[16][17][18][19]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3426.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3426.txt