The Iliad

Oileus

Family: Greek · Role: father · First appears: BOOK II

Life events

  • Agamemnon kills Bienor and Oileus during the Achaean advance.(BOOK XI)
    • With: Agamemnon Bienor
    • “Agamemnon led them on, and slew first Bienor, a leader of his people, and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Oileus”

BOOK II

  • child: Medon “Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.”

BOOK XI

  • with Agamemnon (Agamemnon kills Oileus in battle.) “and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Oileus, who sprang from his chariot and was coming full towards him; but Agamemnon struck him on the forehead with his spear”

BOOK XIII

  • child: Medon “Medon was bastard son to Oileus and brother of Ajax”
  • married with Eriopis “the wife of Oileus”

BOOK XIV

BOOK XV

  • child: Medon “The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax”
  • married with Eriopis “a kinsman of his stepmother Eriopis whom Oileus had married.”
  • child: Ajax son of Telamon “The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax”

BOOK XVII

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