Category:Kibisis

English: The kibisis or pera is the magical knapsack or bag given to Perseus.

Apollodorus describes the kibisis in his Library of Mythology 2.4: "Perseus got possession of the eye and the tooth, and when they asked them back, he said he would give them up if they would show him the way to the nymphs. Now these nymphs had winged sandals and the kibisis, which they say was a wallet. [ But Pindar and Hesiod in The Shield say of Perseus:
'But all his back had on the head of a dread monster,
<The Gorgon,> and round him ran the kibisis.' (Hesiod, Shield of Hercules, 223-4.)

The kibisis is so called because dress and food are deposited in it. They had also the cap < of Hades>. When the Phorcides had shown him the way, he gave them back the tooth and the eye, and coming to the nymphs got what he wanted. So he slung the wallet （kibisis） about him, fitted the sandals to his ankles, and put the cap on his head. Wearing it, he saw whom he pleased, but was not seen by others."