Oxylus

The son of Haemon (according to Apollodorus,1 of Andraemon), and husband of Pieria, by whom he became the father of Aetolus and Laias. He was descended from a family of Elis, but lived in Aetolia; and when the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese, they, in accordance with an oracle, chose him as one of their leaders. He afterwards became king of Elis, which he conquered.

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References

Notes

  1. The Library ii, 8.3.

Sources

  • Aristotle. Politics vi, 2.5.
  • Bartelink, Dr. G.J.M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece v, 3, in fin., 4.1 ff.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography viii, p. 333.

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