Oeagrus

Family: Thrace · Role: father of Orpheus · First appears: Book I 1

Book I 1

married with Calliope “Calliope bare, it is said, wedded to Thracian Oeagrus”
child: Orpheus “whom once Calliope bare, it is said, wedded to Thracian Oeagrus”

child: Orpheus (Orpheus is identified as Oeagrus’s son.) “And at length Orpheus spake as follows, addressing the chiefs: ‘Come, let us call this island the sacred isle of Apollo of the Dawn since he has appeared to all, passing by at dawn; and we will offer such sacrifices as we can, building an altar on the shore; and if hereafter he shall grant us a safe return to the Haemonian land, then will we lay on his altar the thighs of horned goats. And now I bid you propitiate him with the steam of sacrifice and libations. Be gracious, O king, be gracious in thy appearing.’ Thus he spake, and they straightway built up an altar with shingle; and over the island they wandered, seeking if haply they could get a glimpse of a fawn or a wild goat, that often seek their pasture in the deep wood. And for them Leto’s son provided a quarry; and with pious rites they wrapped in fat the thigh bones of them all and burnt them on the sacred altar, celebrating Apollo, Lord of Dawn. And round the burning sacrifice they set up a broad dancing-ring, singing, ‘All hail fair god of healing, Phoebus, all hail,’ and with them Oeagrus’ goodly son began a clear lay on his Bistonian lyre”

child: Orpheus “had not Thracian Orpheus, son of Oeagrus, stringing in his hands his Bistonian lyre”

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