Oaxes

The mythical founder of the town of Oaxus in Crete, is said by some to have been a son of Acacallis, the daughter of Minos,1 and by others a son of Apollo by Anchiale.2

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References

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ὄαξος.
  2. Servius on Virgil's Eclogues i, 66.

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.