Oileus
mythological figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Oïleus
in the texts
Iliad
Comrade and charioteer of Bienor, killed by Agamemnon immediately after Bienor.
Agamemnon led them on, and slew first Bienor, a leader of his people, and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Oileus, who sprang from his chariot and was coming full towards him;
Of these, Medon was bastard son to Oileus and brother of Ajax, but he lived in Phylake away from his own country, for he had killed the brother of his stepmother Eriopis, the wife of Oileus;
The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax, but he lived in Phylake away from his own country, for he had killed a man, a kinsman of his stepmother Eriopis whom Oileus had married.
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological figure (father of Ajax the Lesser) in Sophocles, who consoled another but broke down at his own loss.
And so that Oïleus in Sophocles, who had before consoled Telamon over the death of Ajax, when he had heard of his own son, was broken.