Oeonus

A son of Licymnius of Midea in Argolis, was the first victor at Olympia, in the foot-race. He is said to have been killed at Sparta by the sons of Hippocoon, but was avenged by Heracles, whose kinsman man he was, and was honored with a monument near the temple of Heracles.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 15.3.
  • Pindar. Olympian Odes xii, 76 ff.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 7.3.
  • 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.