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Oeagrus

Οἴαγρος

(Οἴαγρος), a king of Thrace, and father of Orpheus and Linus (Apollod. 1.3.2; Orph. Argon. 73; Ov. lb. 484). Hence the sisters of Orpheus are called Oeagrides, in the sense of the Muses. (Mosch. 3.37.)

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.