Oeax (mythology)

In Greek and Roman Mythology, Oeax or Oiax (Ancient Greek: Οἴακα or Οἴαξ means 'handle of rudder, tiller') was a Euboean prince as the son of King Nauplius.[1][2]

Family

Oeax's mother has been variously told as Clymene,[3] Hesione,[4] or Philyra.[5] He was also the brother of Nausimedon and Palamedes, a Greek warrior at the Trojan War.

Mythology

Because Oeax was angry at the Greeks for killing Palamedes at Troy, he falsely told Clytemnestra about Agamemnon bringing back Cassandra, a Trojan concubine, which led to Clytemnestra plotting to kill Agamemnon.[6][7] Later on, Oeax tried to banish Orestes after the latter murdered his mother Clytemnestra.[8][9] Ultimately, Oeax and his brother Nausimedon were killed by Pylades after helping Aegisthus in his fight with Orestes.[10]

Notes

  1. Apollodorus, 2.1.5 & 3.2.2; Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 1.1 & 6.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 117
  2. Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Nauplius 3". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 1144.
  3. Apollodorus, 2.1.5, 3.2.2 & Epitome 6.8; Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 1.1 & 6.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 117
  4. "Hesione". oxfordreference.com. Oxford University Press.
  5. Hard, p. 236; Gantz, p. 604; Apollodorus, 3.2.2 with Cercops as the authority for Hesione while Nostoi as the source for Philyra
  6. Jennifer R. March (31 May 2014). Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Oxbow Books. pp. 519–. ISBN 978-1-78297-636-3.
  7. Hyginus, Fabulae 117
  8. Euripides, Orestes 432–433
  9. Tripp, Edward. The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. p. 420.
  10. Nausimedon and Oeax were referred only as Nauplius's sons in Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.22.6

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