Ogygos (King of Boeotia)

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Ogygos ( Greek  Ὤγυγος , also Ὠγύγης, Ogyges ; Latin also Ogygis , Ogygius or Ogygus ) is king of Boeotia and Attica in Greek mythology . A great flood occurred in Boeotia in his day, which was named after him as the Ogygian Flood .

literature

• Emil Wörner : Ogygos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 684-694 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Philipp Moritz : Doctrine of Gods in the Gutenberg-DE project