Oeneus

Also known as: Oeneüs / Œneus · Family: Calydon · Role: king and father of Deianira · First appears: Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 2

• child: Deianira “To Dêanira, Oeneus' queenly child, / Heracles' wife,--if these mine eyes be true,-- / My mistress.”

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 3

• younger kin: Heracles (Oeneus is Deianeira's father, making Heracles his son-in-law.) “Who, when with Heracles, a new-made bride, I followed by my father's sending forth,”

Sophocles, The Trachinian Maidens — Scene 5

• younger kin: Hyllus “Many hot toils and hard beyond report, With sturdy thews and sinews I have borne, But no such labour hath the Thunderer's wife Or sour Eurystheus ever given, as this, Which Oeneus' daughter of the treacherous eye Hath fastened on my back, this amply-woven Net of the Furies, that is breaking me. For, glued unto my side, it hath devoured My flesh to the bone, and lodging in the lungs It drains the vital channels, and hath drunk The fresh life-blood, and ruins all my frame, Foiled in the tangle of a viewless bond. Yet me nor War-host, nor Earth's giant brood, Nor Centaur's monstrous violence could subdue, Nor Hellas, nor the Stranger, nor all lands Where I have gone, cleansing the world from harms. But a soft woman without manhood's strain Alone and weaponless hath conquered me. Son, let me know thee mine true-born, nor rate Thy mother's claim beyond thy sire's, but bring Thyself from out the chambers to my hand Her body that hath borne thee, that my heart May be assured, if lesser than my pain It will distress thee to behold her limbs With righteous torment agonized and torn.”

Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonos — Scene 7

• child: Tydeus “Next, Oeneus' son, Aetolian Tydeus;”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.