Oeneus

Oeneus
Member of the Royal House of Calydon
Oeneus with coat and sceptre, Attic white-ground lekythos, c. 500 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1905)
PredecessorPorthaon, his father
SuccessorAgrius, his brother
AbodeCalydon in Aetolia
Genealogy
ParentsPorthaon and Euryte
SiblingsAgrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus and Sterope, Laocoon
ConsortAlthaea
OffspringMeleager, Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus, Thyreus, Gorge, Eurymede, Mothone, Perimede, Melanippe, Deianira, Tydeus

In Greek mythology, Oeneus (/ˈɛn.js/; Ancient Greek: Οἰνεύς, romanizedOineús, lit.'Wine-man'[1]) was a Calydonian king. He introduced wine-making to Aetolia, which he learned from Dionysus and the first who received a vine-plant from the same god.[2]

  1. ^ Hard, p. 413.
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 1.8.1