Oileus

Family: Argonauts · Role: hero · First appears: Book II 8

Life events

• An Ares-bird wounds Oileus, and Eribotes removes the feather and binds the wound.(Book II 8 · 📍 island of Ares)
  • With: Eribotes
  • “It shook its wings down over the ship as she sped on and sent against her a keen feather, and it fell on the left shoulder of goodly Oileus, and he dropped his oar from his hands at the sudden blow, and his comrades marvelled at the sight of the winged bolt. And Eribotes from his seat hard by drew out the feather, and bound up the wound”

Book II 8

• friends with Eribotes “And Eribotes from his seat hard by drew out the feather, and bound up the wound when he had loosed the strap hanging from his own sword-sheath; and besides the first, another bird appeared swooping down”
• with Eribotes (Eribotes treated Oileus's wound.) “And Eribotes from his seat hard by drew out the feather, and bound up the wound when he had loosed the strap hanging from his own sword-sheath;”

Also listed in Argonauts — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.