Oenoe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Oenoe or Oinoe (/ˈɛnoʊ.iː/[1]; Ancient Greek: Οἰνόη means "winy") may refer to:

• Oenoe, an Arcadian nymph, one of the nurses of infant Zeus.[2] She is probably the same as Oenoe, possible mother of Pan by Aether,[3] and Oeneis, also a possible mother of Pan, this time by Zeus.[4]
• Oenoe, an impious Pygmy woman, wife of Nicodamas and mother of Mopsus. She was changed by Hera into a crane because of her impiety; Hera also made the Pygmies start a war against cranes. Oenoe, missing her son, would still come near the house where he lived, which caused the war to go on and on.[5] This Oenoe is otherwise known as Gerana.
• Oenoe, eponym of a deme in Attica (now Oinoi), sister of Epochus.[6]
• Oenoe or Oenoie, Naiad nymph of the homonymous island, mother of Sicinus by Thoas.[7]
• Oenoe, a Maenad follower of Dionysus.[8]

References

1. Gardner, Dorsey (1887). Webster's Condensed Dictionary (3rd ed.). Broadway, Ludgate Hill: George Routledge and Sons. p. 753. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 47. 3
3. Scholia on Euripides, Rhesus, 36
4. Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 1. 3
5. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 16
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 33. 8
7. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 620 ff with scholia on 1. 623
8. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 29. 253