Oxylus

In Greek mythology, Oxylus (/ˈɒksɪləs/; Ancient Greek: Ὄξυλος Oxulos) may refer to:

• Oxylus, son for Ares and Protogeneia, daughter of Calydon.[1]
• Oxylus, a one-eyed man from Aetolia, son of Haemon (himself son of Thoas) or of Andraemon.
• Oxylus, son of Orius, who is noted in the Deipnosophistae for fathering the Hamadryads with his own sister Hamadryas.[2]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.7
2. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.78B

References

• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.