Onchestus

A son of Poseidon, and founder of the town of Onchestus, where the Onchestian Poseidon had a temple and a statue.

Another tradition called this Onchestus a son of Boeotus.

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References

Sources

  • Homer. Iliad ii, 506.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 26.3.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v.

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