Editing Oeagrus (section)

== Biography ==

=== Kingdom ===
There are various versions as to where Oeagrus' domain was actually situated. In one version, he ruled over the [[Edoni]]an kingdom in the region of [[Mygdonia]]. He is also connected with [[Pieria (regional unit)|Pieria]], further west, or to the vicinity of the River [[Maritsa|Hebrus]] to the east, the latter was said to be called 'Oeagria', in his honor.{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}}

=== Family ===
In the version that places Oeagrus in Pieria, his father is given as King [[Pierus of Emathia|Pierus]] and the [[nymph]] [[Methone (Greek myth)|Methone]].<ref>''[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm#link2H_4_0021 Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment]''  1, 314</ref> He was described as "a Thracian wine-god, who was himself descended from [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]]."{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}}  According to ''[[Suda]]'', Oiagros was in the fifth generation after Atlas, by [[Alcyone (Pleiades)|Alkyone]], one of his daughters.<ref>[[Suda]], s.v. ''Orpheus''</ref> This can be explained by the following genealogy: (1) Atlas by [[Pleione (mythology)|Pleione]] — (2) Alcyone by [[Poseidon]] — (3) [[Aethusa]] by Apollo — (4) [[Linus (Thracian)|Linus]] or [[Eleuther]] — (5) Pierus by Methone — Oeager. This was supported by the order of genealogy according to the historian Charax which as follows: Aethuse the Thracian was the mother of Linus, the father of Pierus, the father of Oeagrus.<ref>Suda, s.v. ''[http://topostext.org/work.php?work_id=240#omi.251 Homer]''</ref>

In the account that places him in [[Edonia]] he is said to be the son of [[Charops (mythology)|Charops]], an adherent of the god [[Dionysus]]; Charops was invited by Dionysus to rule over the Edones after the violent death of their king [[Lycurgus of Thrace|Lycurgus]]. Oeagrus has also sometimes been called the son of the god [[Ares]], who was associated with Thrace.<ref>[[Nonnus]], 13.428</ref>

Oeagrus and the [[Muses|Muse]] [[Calliope]]<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, [https://topostext.org/work/126#1.23 1.23–25]; ''[[Argonautica Orphica|Orphic Argonautica]]'' 73 & 1369; [[Ovid]], ''[[Ibis (Ovid)|Ibis]]'' 484; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Astronomica'' 2.7.1; [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' 45 ([[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]]); [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]], 831; ''[[Greek Anthology]]'' 7.8 & 7.10</ref><ref>''Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini.'' ed. G.H. Bode, i. pp. 26, 90 with First and Second Vatican Mythographer as the authority</ref> or [[Clio]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2019}} or [[Polyhymnia|Polymnia]]<ref>Scholia ad Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.23</ref> were the parents of [[Orpheus]]<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 1.570, 2.703, 4.905 & 4.1193; [[Athenaeus]], ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2013.01.0003%3Abook%3D13%3Achapter%3D71 13.71]; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Oeagrus 1.9.16]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 14, 14.5, 251 & 273; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' 5.343; [[Eusebius]], ''Preparation of the Gospels'' 1.63; [[Clement of Alexandria]], ''[[Protrepticus (Clement)|Protrepticus]]'' 7, p. 63, ed. Potter; [[Arrian]], ''[[The Anabasis of Alexander|Anabasis of Alexander]]'' 1.11.1</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html|title=The Library of History|last=Diodorus Siculus|author-link=Diodorus Siculus|publisher=Penelope, [[University of Chicago]]|access-date=March 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html|title=Symposium|last=Plato|author-link=Plato|publisher=The Internet Classics Archive, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]|access-date=March 2, 2013|archive-date=April 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410132334/http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Linus (mythology)|Linus]].<ref>Apollodorus, 1.3.2</ref> He married Calliope close to [[Pimpleia]], [[Mount Olympus|Olympus]].<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 1.23-34</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Pre-Socratic Philosophers|last=Freeman|first=Kathleen|publisher=Basil Blackwell|year=1946|location=Oxford|page=2|author-link=Kathleen Freeman (classicist)}}</ref> The sisters of Orpheus are called Oeagrides, in the sense of the Muses.<ref>[[Moschus]], ''Poems'' 3.17</ref> The father of Orpheus was sometimes given as [[Apollo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theoi.com/Text/Apollodorus1.html|title=Bibliotheca|last=Pseudo-Apollodorus|author-link=Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|publisher=Theoi.com|access-date=March 2, 2013}}</ref> Oeagrus was also mentioned as the father of [[Marsyas]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#165 165]</ref>
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|+Comparative table of Oeagrus' family and possible kingdom
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!''Homer''
! colspan="2" |''Apollon.''
! rowspan="2" |''Mos.''
! rowspan="2" |''Dio.''
! rowspan="2" |''Con.''
!''Ovid''
! rowspan="2" |''Arrian''
! rowspan="2" |''Apol.''
! colspan="3" |''Hyginus''
! rowspan="2" |''Athen.''
|''Orp.'' 
! rowspan="2" |''Non.''
|''Gk.'' 
! rowspan="2" |''Suda''
!''Tzet.''
!''1st''
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|''Contest''
|''Arg.''
|''Sch.''
|''Ibis''
| colspan="2" |''Fab.''
|''Ast.''
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|''Ant.''
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!''V.M.''
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| rowspan="3" |''Oeagrus' Kingdom''
|(Pimpleia,) Pieria
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| rowspan="7" |''Orpheus' Kingdom''
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|Edonia
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|Macedonia
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|Odrysia
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|Thrace
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| rowspan="4" |''Parentage''
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|Pierus and Methone
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| rowspan="2" |''Consort''
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|Polymnia
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| rowspan="4" |''Children''
|Orpheus
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|Linus
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