Oibalos (King of Sparta)

Oibalos ( Greek  Οἴβαλος ) was a king of Sparta , whose place in the order of the Spartan kings is given quite differently according to different sources.

family

According to a variant that Apollodorus indicates, he is the son of Perieres , according to others of Kynortas , the "dog awakening". Others call him the son of Argalos .

As the husband of the Gorgophone , the daughter of Perseus - after her marriage to Perieres the first widow who married a second time - he fathered Arene , Tyndareos and Ikarios , who would later become the father-in-law of Odysseus . According to other information, he fathered this as well as the hippocoon with the nymph Bateia . Also Peirene is of Pausanias called his daughter.

When Oibalos died, Hippocoon took the throne. A heroon was established for him in Sparta . His descendants are called Oibalids, and the Spartans are sometimes called that. He was the namesake of Oibalia , today's Taranto .

swell

• Library of Apollodorus , 3, 117; 3, 123.
• Dictys cretensis , Ephemeris belli Troiani , 1, 9.
• Hesiod , Eoien , 199, 8.
• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae , 14, 78.
• Lycophron , Alexandra, 3, 1122.
• Ovid , Heroides , 16, 127.
• Pausanias , travels in Greece , 2, 2, 3; 2, 21, 7; 3, 1, 3; 3, 15, 10; 4, 2, 4.

See also

• Widow burning

literature

• Michael Grant and John Hazel: Lexicon of ancient myths and shapes , dtv, ISBN 3-423-32508-9 .
• Robert von Ranke-Graves : Greek mythology - sources and interpretation , rororo, ISBN 3-499-55404-6 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Perieres	King of Sparta 13th century BC Chr. (Fictional chronology)	Tyndareos