Oineus (father of Meleager)

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Oineus with cloak and scepter, white-ground Attic lekythos , around 500 BC Chr. , State Collections of Antiquities (Inv. 1905)

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 .

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