Oineus (father of Meleager)
Oineus ( ancient Greek Οἰνεύς Oineús , Latin Oeneus ), son of Porthaon , was king of Pleuron and Kalydon in Aetolia in Greek mythology , who is said to have first planted the mountains of Aetolia with vines . He was married to Althaia , with whom he had three children: Tydeus , Deianeira and Meleagros . Some sources attribute the son Tydeus to Oineus' second wife Periboia .
Once he had forgotten to sacrifice to Artemis , and so she sent a huge boar to devastate the land, whereupon the so-called Calydonian hunt was held. According to a later legend, the sons of his brother Agrios robbed him of his throne and his freedom. His grandson Diomedes , son of Tydeus, killed Agrios and his sons for this, handed the throne of Oineus to his son-in-law Andraimon and took Oineus with him to Argos .
literature
- Gustav Türk : Oineus 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 751-762 ( digitized version ).