Oileus
1. A Trojan, charioteer of Bianor, was slain by Agamemnon. (The Iliad of Homer)
Bianor was an ancient hero of the town of Mantua, a son of Tiberis and Manto, and was also called Ocnus or Aucnus. He is said to have built the town of Mantua, and to have called it after his mother. According to others, Ocnus was a son or brother of Auletes, the founder of Perusia, and emigrated to Gaul, where he built Cesena. (Servius on Virgil’s Aeneid)
2. A son of Hodoedocus and Laonome, grandson of Cynus, and great-grandson of Opus, was a king of the Locrians, and married to Eriopis, by whom he became the father of Ajax, who is hence called Oilides or Oiliades. Oileus was also the father of Medon by Rhene. (The Iliad of Homer) He is also mentioned among the Argonauts. (Apollodorus Library Book 3; Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius)
From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and MythologyFrom Apollodorus Library Book 3.
The wooers were these: — Ulysses, son of Laertes Diomedes, son of Tydeus Antilochus, son of Nestor Agapenor, son of Ancaeus Sthenelus, son of Capaneus Amphimachus, son of Cteatus Thalpius, son of Eurytus Meges, son of Phyleus Amphilochus, son of Aniphiaraus Menestheus, son of Peteos Schedius and Epistrophus, sons of Iphitus Polyxenus, son of Agasthenes Peneleos, son of Hippalcimus Leitus, son of Alector Ajax, son of Oileus Ascalaphus and lalmenus, sons of Ares Elephenor, son of Chalcodon Eumelus, son of Admetus Polypoetes, son of Perithous Leonteus, son of Coronus Podalirius and Machaon, sons of Aesculapius Philoctetes, son of Poeas Eurypylus, son of Evaemon Protesilaus, son of Iphiclus Menelaus, son of Atreus Ajax and Teucer, sons of Telamon Patroclus, son of Menoetius.
From Metamorphoses by Ovid. Book The Fourteenth
After fam'd Ilium was by Argives won,
And flames had finish'd, what the sword begun;
Pallas, incens'd, pursu'd us to the main,
In vengeance of her violated fane.
Alone Oileus forc'd the Trojan maid,
Yet all were punish'd for the brutal deed.
A storm begins, the raging waves run high,
The clouds look heavy, and benight the sky;
Red sheets of light'ning o'er the seas are spread,
Our tackling yields, and wrecks at last succeed.
From The Iliad of Homer Book II
And those that held Methone and Thaumacia, with Meliboea and rugged Olizon, these were led by the skilful archer Philoctetes, and they had seven ships, each with fifty oarsmen all of them good archers; but Philoctetes was lying in great pain in the Island of Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans left him, for he had been bitten by a poisonous water snake. There he lay sick and sorry, and full soon did the Argives come to miss him. But his people, though they felt his loss were not leaderless, for Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.
From The Fall of Troy, by Quintus Smyrnaeus
A lion in the path, and slew: his spear
Right to the heart of one he drave, and one
Stabbed with a lightning sword-thrust 'twixt the hips:
Leapt through the wounds the life, and fled away.
Oileus' fiery son smote Derinoe
'Twixt throat and shoulder with his ruthless spear;
And on Alcibie Tydeus' terrible son
Swooped, and on Derimacheia: head with neck
Clean from the shoulders of these twain he shore
With ruin-wreaking brand. Together down
Fell they, as young calves by the massy axe
Of brawny flesher felled, that, shearing through
The sinews of the neck, lops life away.
