Agrius
Family: Calydon · Role: father of the sons of Agrius · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7
🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Agrius)
Agrius was a son of Porthaon and Euryte, alongside Oeneus, Alcathous, Melas, and Leucopeus. At Calydon, his sons—Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, and Melanippus—“wrested the kingdom from Oeneus and gave it to their father,” then imprisoned and tormented Oeneus.
Agrius was later named among Penelope’s suitors, alongside Medon and Promus. He was also identified as a son born by Circe to Odysseus, together with his siblings Latinus and Telegonus. Diomedes and Alcmaeon eventually came from Argos and killed all the sons of Agrius.
Relationship record
Life events
- Agrius’s sons seized Oeneus’s kingdom and imprisoned him.(Apollodorus, Library 1.8 · 📍 Calydon)
- With: Oeneus
- “But the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus, wrested the kingdom from Oeneus and gave it to their father, and more than that they imprisoned Oeneus in his lifetime and tormented him.”
- Circe bore Agrius, Latinus, and Telegonus to Odysseus.(Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021)
Apollodorus, Library 1.7
- parent: Porthaon “had sons, Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus”
- parent: Euryte “had sons, Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus”
Apollodorus, Library 1.8
- child: Thersites “the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus”
- child: Onchestus “the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus”
- child: Prothous “the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus”
- child: Celeutor “the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus”
- child: Lycopeus “the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus”
- child: Melanippus “the sons of Agrius, to wit, Thersites, Onchestus, Prothous, Celeutor, Lycopeus, Melanippus”
- with Oeneus (interaction) “imprisoned Oeneus in his lifetime and tormented him”
- with Diomedes (interaction) “Diomedes afterwards came secretly with Alcmaeon from Argos and put to death all the sons of Agrius”
- with Alcmaeon (interaction) “Diomedes afterwards came secretly with Alcmaeon from Argos and put to death all the sons of Agrius”
- enemies with Diomedes “Diomedes afterwards came secretly with Alcmaeon from Argos and put to death all the sons of Agrius”
Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021
- parent: Circe “loved steadfast Odysseus and bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
- parent: Odysseus “loved steadfast Odysseus and bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
- siblings with Latinus “bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
- siblings with Telegonus “bare Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong: also she brought forth Telegonus by the will of golden Aphrodite.”
Apollodorus, Epitome 7
- courtship with Penelope “Medon, Agrius, Promus”
- admired: Penelope “From Dulichium came fifty-seven: Amphinomus, Thoas, Demoptolemus, Amphimachus, Euryalus, Paralus, Evenorides, Clytius, Agenor, Eurypylus, Pylaemenes, Acamas, Thersilochus, Hagius, Clymenus, Philodemus, Meneptolemus, Damastor, Bias, Telmius, Polyidus, Astylochus, Schedius, Antigonus, Marpsius, Iphidamas, Argius, Glaucus, Calydoneus, Echion, Lamas, Andraemon, Agerochus, Medon, Agrius, Promus, Ctesius, Acarnan, Cycnus, Pseras, Hellanicus, Periphron, Megasthenes, Thrasymedes, Ormenius, Diopithes, Mecisteus, Antimachus, Ptolemaeus, Lestorides, Nicomachus, Polypoetes, and Ceraus.”
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