Oeneus
Could not find Oeneasque in Logeion dictionaries.
Oeneasque Proper-name adjective: feminine accusative plural of Oeneus
- a king of Aetolia or Calydon, the husband of Althaea, and father of Meleager, Tydeus, Dejanira, Gorgo, etc., Ov. M. 8, 281 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 172; Stat. Th. 2, 165; 586; Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 8, 20.— Hence,
- A Oenēis, ĭdis, f., = Οἰνηΐς, the daughter of Oeneus, i.e. Dejanira, Sen. Herc. Oet. 583.—
- B Oenēĭus, a, um, adj., = Οἰνήϊος, Oenean: Oeneius heros, i.e. Tydeus, Stat. Th. 5, 661.—
- C Oenēus (trisyl.), a, um, adj., = Οἰνήϊος, Oenean: Oeneos per agros, i. e. of Calydon or Aetolia, Ov. M. 8, 281.—
- D Oenīdes, ae, m., = Οἰνείδης, a male descendant of Oeneus: at manus Oenidae variat, i.e. Meleager, Ov. M. 8, 414; Val. Fl. 3, 690: et generum Oeniden, Appule Daune, tuum, i.e. Diomedes, son of Tydeus, Ov. F. 4, 76; cf. id. M. 14, 512.
(Οἰνεύς).
1. One of the sons of Aegyptus. (Apollod. 2.1.5.)
2. A son of Pandion, and one of the eponymie heroes at Athens. (Paus. 1.5.2.)
3. A son of Portheus, brother of Agrius and Melas and huslband of Althaea, by whom he became the father of Tydeus and Meieager, and was thus the grandfather of Diomedes. He was king of Pleuron and Calydon in Aetolia (Hom. Il. 5.813, 9.543, 14.115, &c.). According to the tragic poets he was a son of Porthaon and Euryte, and besides the two brothers mentioned above, Alcathous, Laocoon, Leucopeus, and Sterope, are likewise called his brothers and sister (Apollod. 1.7.10; Apollon. 1.192; Hyg. Fab. 14). His children are said to have been Toxeus, whom he himself killed, Thyreus (Phereus), Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus, Meleager, Gorge, Eurymede, Melanippe, Mothone, and Deianeira (Apollod. 1.8.1; Paus. 4.35.1; Ant. Lib. 2). His second wife was Melanippe, the daughter of Hipponous, and by her he is said by some to have become the father of Tydeus, who according to others was his son by his own daughter Gorge (Apollod. 1.8.4, &c.; Diod. 4.35; comp. Tydeus). He is said to have been deprived of his kingdom by the sons of Agrius, who imprisoned him and ill used him. But he was subsequently avenged by Diomedes, who slew Agrius and his sons, and restored the kingdom either to Oeneus himself, or to his son-in-law Andraemon, as Oeneus was too old. Diomedes took his grandfather with him to Peloponnesus, but some of the sons who lay in ambush, slew the old man, near the altar of Telephus in Arcadia. Diomedes buried his body at Argos, and named the town of Oenoe after him (Apollod. 1.8.5, &c.; Ant. Lib. 37; Diod. 4.65). According to others Oeneus lived to a very old age with Diomedes at Argos, and died a natural death (Paus. 2.25.2). Homer knows nothing of all this; he merely relates that Oeneus once neglected to sacrifice to Artemis, in consequence of which she sent a monstrous boar into the territory of Calydon, which was hunted by Meleager (Il. 9.532, &c.). The hero Bellerophon was hospitably received by him, and received a costly girdle as a present from him (6.216, &c.). At the time of the Trojan war the race of Oeneus had become extinct, and hence Thoas, the son of Andraemon, the son-in-law of Oeneus, led the Aetolians against Troy (2.638, &c.). [L.S]
OENEUS (Οἰνεύς), a river of Pannonia, a tributary of the Savus (Ptol. 2.17.2). In the Peuting. Table it is called Indenea, and now bears the name of Unna.
[L.S](Οἰνεύς). A king of Calydon in Aetolia, son of Portheus or of Porthaon. He married Althaea, the daughter of Thestius, by whom he had, among other children, Meleager and Deïanira. After Althaea's death, he married Periboea or Melanippé, the daughter of Hipponoüs, by whom he became the father of Tydeus, though others made Tydeus his son by his own daughter Gorgé. In a sacrifice which Oeneus made to all the gods, upon reaping the rich produce of his fields, he forgot Artemis, and the goddess, to revenge this neglect, sent a wild boar to lay waste the territory of Calydon. The animal was at last killed, by Meleager and the neighbouring princes of Greece, in a celebrated chase known by the name of the chase of the Calydonian boar. (See Meleager.) After the death of Meleager, Oeneus was dethroned and imprisoned by the sons of his brother Agrius. Diomedes, having come secretly from the city of Argos, slew all the sons of Agrius but two, who escaped to the Peloponnesus; and then, giving the throne of Calydon to Audraemon, son-in-law of Oeneus, who was himself now too old to reign, led the latter with him to Argolis. Oeneus was afterwards slain by the two sons of Agrius, who had fled into the Peloponnesus. Diomedes buried him in Argolis, on the spot where the city of Oenoë, called after Oeneus, was subsequently erected. Oeneus is said to have been the first that received the vine from Bacchus. The god taught him how to cultivate it, and the juice of the grape was called after his name (οἶνος, “wine”) (Apollod.i. 8; Hyg. Fab. 129).