Oxylos (son of Oreus)

Oxylos ( Greek  Ὄξυλος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

According to Pherenikos , a Greek epic of an indefinite, perhaps Hellenistic period, he was the son of Oreios and with his sister Hamadryas fathered the Hamadryads , those nymphs who live in trees and are closely connected with the fate of the tree. Her daughters, who have been handed down by name, were Karya , Kraneia , Aigeiros , Orea , Balanos , Ptelea , Ampelos and Syke . In addition, according to Pherenikos, they had other daughters. The name of each of these daughters was the inspiration for the Greek name of a tree species, Syke for the fig tree , Ptelea for the elm , Kraneia for the cornel , Aigeiros for the black poplar and Balanos for the acorn .

source

• Pherenikos in Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 3, 78 B

literature

• Ludwig Less : Oxylos 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 1237 f. ( Digitized version ).