Periphetes

The Club-bearer (Korynetes) of Epidaurus, first of the brigands Theseus killed on his journey from Troezen to Athens. He was the lame son of Hephaestus and Anticleia, and carried a club of solid bronze with which he beat travellers to death on the road. Theseus wrestled the club from him, killed him with his own weapon, and kept it thereafter — the sign, in every tradition, that like Heracles with the Nemean hide he had chosen to be known by a weapon he had taken rather than one he had been given.

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