person
Oeneus
also: Οἰνεύς
King of Calydon, Meleager's father and Diomedes' grandfather; Artemis's neglected honour brought the monstrous Calydonian boar on his land.
Reading notes
- The Iliad §2.441 Oeneus
King of Calydon, Meleager's father and Diomedes's grandfather; the boar Artemis sent to ravage his land in anger at being neglected is the origin of Phoenix's cautionary tale in Book 9.