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.
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).