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.

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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.