Oreios (Lapith)
Oreios ( ancient Greek Ὄρειος , Latinized Orius ) is a Lapith of Greek mythology .
He appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses as a guest at the wedding of Peirithoos and Hippodameia , at which the Centaurs begin a battle with the Lapiths. When the Centaur Gryneus throws an altar of fire into the crowd, Broteas and Oreios are slain by him. Gryneus is then killed by Exadios with a deer antler.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Oreios 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 946 ( digitized version ).