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Oeolycus

Οἰόλυκος

(Οἰόλυκος), a son of Theras of Sparta, and brother of Aegeus, was honoured at Sparta with an heroum. (Hdt. 4.149; Paus. 3.15.6.)

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.