Œneus

Family: Mythological figures · Role: king of Calydon · First appears: Fable 59

Fable 59

child: Meleager “His son Meleager leads the chase”
with Diana (Diana is offended by Œneus and sends an avenger against his lands.) “Diana, offended at the neglect of Œneus, king of Calydon, when performing his vows to the Gods, sends a wild boar to ravage his dominions”
with Ceres (interaction) “Œneus, for the blessings of a plenteous year, had offered the first fruits of the corn to Ceres”
with Bacchus (interaction) “to Bacchus his wine”
with Minerva (interaction) “and the Palladian juice[26] {of olives} to the yellow-haired Minerva.”

child: Deïanira “Deïanira, the daughter of Œneus, having been wooed by several suitors, her father gives his consent that she shall marry him who proves to be the bravest of them.”
parent: Parthaon “together with these, when the house of him, whom I desired as my father-in-law, was entered by me, I said, ‘Receive me, O son of Parthaon,[3] for thy son-in-law.’”

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