Pausanias' Description of Greece

Œoclus

Role: mythic figure · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 29

As time rolled on, Ascra bore Poseidon’s son Œoclus. He first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus, at the foot of many-fountained Helicon.

Relationship record

Book 9 · Chapter 29

  • parent: Poseidon (Poseidon is identified as Œoclus's father.) “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus, who first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus, Ascra at the foot of many-fountained Helicon.”
  • parent: Ascra (Ascra is identified as Œoclus's mother.) “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus, who first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus, Ascra at the foot of many-fountained Helicon.”
  • with Aloeus (Œoclus built Ascra together with the sons of Aloeus.) “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus, who first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus, Ascra at the foot of many-fountained Helicon.”

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