In Greek mythology, Perses (Ancient Greek: Πέρσης, romanized: Pérsēs, lit. 'destroyer') can refer to the following individuals:
- Perses, son of the Titan Crius and the sea-goddess Eurybia, brother to Astraeus and Pallas. He married Asteria and became the father of Hecate.
- Perses, son of the sun-god Helios and the sea-nymph Perse, brother to Aeëtes, Circe and Pasiphaë.
- Perses, son of Perseus and Andromeda and legendary ancestor of the Persians.
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- Herodotus, Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version available at Perseus Digital Library.
- Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hyginus, Gaius Julius, The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
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