Oeneus
Also known as: knight Oeneus · Family: Argives · Role: king · First appears: BOOK VI
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Oeneus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Œneus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Oeneus)
In Book VI, Oeneus entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and they exchanged presents. By Book IX, Meleager is identified as his child, and Diana is said to have harmed his people because he had not offered her the first-fruits of his harvest. In Book X, an evil dream described as “the seed of Oeneus” hovered over Diomed.
In Book XIV, Portheus is named as Oeneus’s parent, and Agrius and Melas as his brothers; Tydeus is his child and Diomed his younger kin. In Book XXI, Achilles slew Oeneus.
Relationship record
BOOK VI
- friends with Bellerophon (Diomed calls Bellerophon an old friend of his father's house.) “Great Oeneus once entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and the two exchanged presents.”
BOOK IX
- child: Meleager “Meleager son of Oeneus got huntsmen and hounds from many cities”
- with Diana (interaction) “For Diana of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits”
BOOK X
- with Diomed (interaction) “for by the counsel of Minerva an evil dream, the seed of Oeneus, hovered that night over his head.”
BOOK XIV
- child: Tydeus “The third was the knight Oeneus, my father’s father”
- younger kin: Diomed “The third was the knight Oeneus, my father’s father”
- parent: Portheus “For Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon. The third was the knight Oeneus”
- siblings with Agrius “Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon. The third was the knight Oeneus”
- siblings with Melas “Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon. The third was the knight Oeneus”
BOOK XXI
- enemies with Achilles “Therein he slew Thersilochus, Mydon, Astypylus, Mnesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, and Ophelestes”
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