Oeagrus
In Greek mythology, Oeagrus (Greek: Οἴαγρος, translit. Oíagros, lit. "of the wild sorb-apple"[1]) was a king of Thrace, and father of Orpheus.
Biography
Kingdom
There are various versions as to where Oeagrus' domain was actually situated. In one version, he ruled over the Edonian kingdom in the region of Mygdonia. He is also connected with Pieria, further west, or to the vicinity of the River Hebrus to the east, the latter was said to be called 'Oeagria', in his honor.[citation needed]
Family
In the version that places Oeagrus in Pieria, his father is given as King
In the account that places him in
Oeagrus and the Muse Calliope[6][7][8] or Clio[citation needed] or Polymnia[9] were the parents of Orpheus[10][11][12] and Linus.[13] He married Calliope close to Pimpleia, Olympus.[14][15] The sisters of Orpheus are called Oeagrides, in the sense of the Muses.[16] The father of Orpheus was sometimes given as Apollo.[17] Oeagrus was also mentioned as the father of Marsyas.[18]
Variable | Name | Sources | |||||||||||||||||||
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Homer | Apollon. | Mos. | Dio. | Con. | Ovid | Arrian | Apol. | Hyginus | Athen. | Orp. | Non. | Gk. | Suda | Tzet. | 1st | 2nd | |||||
Contest | Arg. | Sch. | Ibis | Fab. | Ast. | Arg. | Ant. | Lyco. | V.M. | V.M | |||||||||||
Oeagrus' Kingdom | (Pimpleia,) Pieria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
Bistonia | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Thrace | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Orpheus' Kingdom | Pieria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
Edonia | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Macedonia | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Odrysia | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||||
Thrace | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||
Bistonia (Cicones) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||
Leibithra | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parentage | Charops | ✓ | |||||||||||||||||||
Ares | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Pierus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Pierus and Methone | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Consort | Calliope | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ or | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
Polymnia | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Children | Orpheus | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Linus | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Marsyas | ✓ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Oeagrides | ✓ |
Mythology
In Nonnus' Dionysiaca, the author states that Oeagrus quitted his city of Pimpleia on the Bistonian plain and followed the enterprise of Dionysos against the Indian people. He left his newly born son Orpheus in the charge of his consort Calliopeia.[19]
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Oeagrus was also described as a singer and harpist, and a skilled warrior during this adventures.[21]
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Honours
Oeagrus Beach in Antarctica is named after the mythical king.
References
- ISBN 978-0143106715.
- ^ Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1, 314
- ^ Suda, s.v. Orpheus
- ^ Suda Encyclopedia s.v. Homer.
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca XIII.428
- Orphic Argonautica73 & 1369
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius. "The Argonautica". The Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- ^ Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini. ed. G.H. Bode, i. pp. 26, 90 with First and Second Vatican Mythographer as the authority
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.23
- Anabasis of Alexander1.11.1
- ^ Diodorus Siculus. "The Library of History". Penelope, University of Chicago. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- ^ Plato. "Symposium". The Internet Classics Archive, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on April 10, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.3.2 & 1.9.16
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.23-34
- ^ Freeman, Kathleen (1946). The Pre-Socratic Philosophers. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 2.
- ^ Moschus, Poems 3.17
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. "Bibliotheca". Theoi.com. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 165
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.428
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.428-431
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 19.70, 19.100, 19.112, 22.168 & 22.188
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 19.69-71
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 19.100-105
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 19.112-115
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 19.168-170
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 22.320-353
Sources
- Kathleen Freeman. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946.