Aulis

A daughter of Ogyges and Thebe, from whom the Boeotian town of Aulis was believed to have derived its name.1 Other traditions called her a daughter of Euonymus, the son of Cephissus.2

Aulis was one of the goddesses who watched over oaths under the name of Praxidicae (Πραξιδίκαι). See Alalcomenia.

References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 19.5.
  2. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Αὐλίς.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.