Pleuron and Calydon in Aetolia (Horn. 11. v. 813, ix. 543, xiv. 115, &c.). According to the tragic poets he was a son of Porthaon and Euryte, and besides the two brothers mentioned above, Alca- thous, Laocoon, Leucopeus, and Sterope, are like- wise called his brothers and sister (ApoUod. i. 7. § 10 ; Apollon. Rhod. i. 192 ; Hygin. F«i. 14). His children are said to have been Toxeus, whom he him- self killed, Thyreus (Phereus), Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus, Meleager, Gorge, Eurymede, Melanippe, Mothone, and Deianeira (Apollod. i, 8. § 1 ; Pans, iv. 35. § 1 ; Anton. Lib. 2). His second wife was Melanippe, the daughter of Hipponous, and by her he is said by some to have become the father of Tydeus, who according to others was his son by his own daughter Gorge (Apollod. i. 8. § 4, &c.; Diod. iv. 35 ; comp. Tydeus). He is said to have been deprived of his kingdom by the sons of Agrius, who imprisoned him and ill used him. But he was subsequently avenged by Dioraedes, who slew Agrius and his sons, and restored the kingdom either to Oeneus himself, or to his son-in-law An- draemon, as Oeneus was too old. Diomedes took his grandfather with him to Peloponnesus, but some of the sons who lay in ambush, slew the old man, near the altar of Telephus in Arcadia. Diomedes buried his body at Argos, and named the town of Oenoe after him (Apollod. i. 8. § 5, &c,; Anton. Lib. 37 ; Diod. iv. 65). According to others Oeneus lived to a very old age with Diomedes at Argos, and died a natural death (Pans. ii. 25. § 2). Homer knows nothing of all this ; he merely relates that Oeneus once neglected to sacrifice to Artemis, in consequence of which she sent a monstrous boar into the territory of Calydon, which was hunted by Meleager {II. ix. 532, &c.). The hero Bellerophon was hospitably received by him, and received a costly girdle as a present from him (vi. 216, &c.). At the time of the Trojan war the race of Oeneus had become extinct, and hence Thoas, the son of Andraemon, the son-in-law of Oeneus, led the Aetolians against Troy (ii. 638, &c.). [L. S.]
OENIAS, a Greek painter, of whom nothing
more is known than that he painted a family
group, syngenicon. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40.
§ 37.) ^ [P. S.]
OENOATIS (OtVwaTts), a surname of Artemis, •who was worshipped at Oenoe in Argolis. (Eurip. Here. Fur. 376.) [L. S-]
OE'NOE (plv6T]). 1. The name given by An-
toninus Liberalis (16) to a person commonly called
Gerana. [Gerana].
. A sister of Epochus, from which the Attic demus of Oenoe was believed to have derived its name. (Pans. i. 33, in fin.)
. An Arcadian nymph, who is said to have been one of those that brought up the infant Zeus. (Pans. viii. 47. § 2.) [L. S.]
OENOMARCHUS {Olv6^lapxos), of Andros,
(me of the numerous pupils of Herodes Atticus, did
not possess any great celebrity, and was fond of
the florid style of eloquence, which received the
name of the Ionic or Asiatic. (Philostr. Vit.
Soph. ii. 18.)
OENO'MAUS (OsVo^aos), a son of Ares and
Harpinna, the daughter of Asopus, and husband of
the Pleiad Sterope, by whom he became the father
of Hippodameia, was king of Pisa in Elis (Apollod.
iii. 10. § 1 ; Pans. v. 10. § 2, 22. § 5, vi. 21. § 6).
According to others he was a son of Ares and
Sterope (Schol. ad Horn. II. xviii. 486 ; Hygin,
Fah. 84, 159), or a son of Alxion (Paus. v. 1. § 5),
or of Hyperochus and Sterope (Tzetz. ad Lye. 149).
An oracle had declared that he should die if his
daughter should marry, and he therefore made it a
condition that those who came forward as suitors for
Hippodameia's hand should contend with himself in
the chariot- race, and he who conquered should receive
her, whereas those that were conquered should suffer
death. The race-course extended from Pisa to the
altar of Poseidon, on the Corinthian isthmus. At
the moment when a suitor started with Hippodameia,
Oenomaus sacrificed a ram to Zeus at Pisa, and
then armed himself and hastened with his swift
chariot and four horses, guided by Myrtilus, after
the suitor. He thus overtook many a lover, whom
he put to death, until Pelops, the son of Tantalus,
came to Pisa. Pelops bribed Myrtilus, and using
the horses which he had received from Poseidon,
he succeeded in reaching the goal before Oenomaus,
who in despair made away with himself. Thus
Pelops obtained Hippodameia and the kingdom of
Pisa (Diod. iv. 73 ; Hygin. Fab. 84 ; Schol. ad
Apollon. Rhod. i. 752, ad Find. OZ. i. 1 14 ; Ov. lb.
365, &c.). There are some variations in this story,
as e. g. that Oenomaus was himself in love with
his daughter, and for this reason slew her lovers
(Tzetz. ac? Z^c. 156; Hygin. Fab. 253). Myr-
tilus also is said to have loved her, and as she
wished to possess Pelops, she persuaded Myrtilus
to take the nails out of the wheels of her father's
chariot ; and as Oenomaus was breathing his last
he pronounced a curse upon Myrtilus, and this
curse had its desired eifect, for as Pelops refused
to give to Myrtilus the reward he had promised, or
as Myrtilus had attempted to dishonour Hippo-
dameia, Pelops thrust him down from Cape Ge-
raestus. But Myrtilus, while dying, likewise pro-
nounced a curse upon the house of Pelops, which
was afterwards the cause of the fatal occurrences
in the life of Atreus and Thyestes (Tzetz. ad Lye,
156). All the suitors that had been killed by
Oenomaus, were buried in one common tomb (Paus.
vi. 21. § 6, &c.). The tomb of Oenomaus himself
was shown on the river Cladeus in Elis (vi. 21. §
3). His house was destroyed by lightning, and
only one pillar of it remained standing (v. 20. § 3,
14. § 5 ; comp. v. 17. § 4, 10. § 2 ; Soph. Elect.
504, &c. ; Volcker, Mythol. des Jupet. Gesehl. p.
361). [L.S.]
OENO'MAUS (OtVoVoos), of Gadara, a cynic
philosopher, who flourished in the reign of Hadrian,
or somewhat later, but before Porphyry. (Syncell.
p. 349, b. ; Suid. s. v.) He was one of those
later cynics Avhose philosophy consisted not so much
in any definite system of doctrine, as in a free and
unrestrained tone of thought and life. Thus the
emperor Julian charges him with sensuality and
profaneness ; and his sarcasms upon the old cynic
doctrines have led some to suppose, but without
reason, that he belonged to some other sect. (Ju-
lian, Orat. vi. p. 199, vii. p. 209, ed. Spanheim.)
Suidas mentions, as his works, Ilepl Kvuiajxov^
YloKireia, Hcfil t^s Kaff "O/xripov ^ioao<pias,
Uepl KpdTrjTos Kal Aioyevovs Kol TtuV Xoiirav.
This list, however, does not include the work
which is best known to us, namely, his exposure
of the oracles, which is sometimes entitled Kara
Tuu xPVCT'npif', but the proper title seems to have
been ro^wc *ajpa, i. e. Detedio Praestiyiatorum,
Considerable extracts from this work are preserved
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