Aitolus (son of Oxylos)

Aitolos ( Greek  Αἰτωλός ) is the son of Oxylos and Pieria in Greek mythology .

He died early, and because of an oracle saying that his body was not allowed to rest either inside or outside the city of Elis , the parents built the tomb under the gate that led to Olympia and the Temple of Zeus . It is said that at the time of Pausanias (2nd century AD) the custom still prevailed that the Gymnasiarch of Elis made sacrifices at the grave of Aitolus every year.

swell

• Pausanias , Helládos Periēgēsis 5,4,4

literature

• Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Aitolos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1127-1129.
• Julius Adolf Bernhard : Aitolos 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 203 ( digitized version ).