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Olenus

2. A son of Zeus and the Danaid Anaxiithea, from whom the town of Olenus in Achaia derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v.; Strab. viii. p.386.)

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.