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Aulis

Αὐλίς

(Αὐλίς), a daughter of Ogygus and Thebe, from whom the Boeotian town of Aulis was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. 9.19.5.) Other traditions called her a daughter of Euonymus, the son of Cephissus. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Αὐλίς.) She was one of the goddesses who watched over oaths under the name of πραξιδίκαι. [ALALCOMENIA.]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.