Oeneus
mythological figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
King Oeneus · Oineus · great Oeneus
in the texts
Iliad
Diomedes' grandfather, king who once hosted Bellerophon for twenty days and exchanged gifts, establishing the ancestral guest-friendship Diomedes later invokes.
Great Oeneus once entertained Bellerophon for twenty days, and the two exchanged presents.
but either you are tired out, or you are afraid and out of heart, and in that case I say that you are no true son of Tydeus the son of Oeneus.
For Artemis of the golden throne was angry and did them hurt because Oeneus had not offered her his harvest first-fruits.
Stromata
Mythical king whose omission of sacrifice to Artemis provoked her wrath.
or, if not this, then how is it that, in cases where they are not harmed, they grow bitter—like some irascible old woman provoked to anger—as men say that Artemis was wroth with the Aetolians on account of Oeneus?
The Funeral Speech
Son of the unnamed god (Dionysus) and Semele's grandson, called the founder of the Oeneidae's race.
It did not escape the Oeneidae that Semele was the daughter of Cadmus, and of her was born one whom it would be sacrilegious to name at this tomb, and by him Oeneus was begotten, who was called the founder of their race.
Orations
Father of Meleager.
Has he not, then, drawn a more wretched lot and a far more unfortunate destiny than they say Meleager, the son of Althaea and Oeneus, obtained—for whom they say a certain firebrand held in keeping the span of his life: