Toxeus (son of Thestios)

Toxeus ( Greek  Τοξεύς ) is one of the brothers Althaias in Greek mythology , who was married to Oineus .

His nephew Meleagros killed him and his brother, his other uncle Plexippus , because they disputed the trophy , namely the fur and the head of the boar , and stole it during the Calydonian hunt Atalante .

swell

• Ovid : Metamorphoses 8, 439.

literature

• Johannes Schmidt : Toxeus 3) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 1087 f. ( Digitized version ).