- Agrius
:"For the genus of
moth s (familySphingidae ) seeAgrius (genus) ."Agrius (Gr. polytonic|Ἄγριος) was inGreek mythology a son ofParthaon , king ofCalydon inAetolia , and Euryte; he was the brother ofOeneus (who succeeded his father as king of Calydon),Alcathous ,Melas , Leucopeus, andSterope .Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Agrius | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 82 | publisher =Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0091.html ] He was father of six sons, includingMelanippus andThersites , who overthrew Oeneus and gave the kingdom to their father. Agrius and his sons were themselves overthrown byDiomedes , who reinstalled Oeneus as king. All the sons except Thersites were killed by Diomedes. [Apollodorus , i. 7. § 10, 8. § 5, &c.]Apollodorus places these events before the expedition of the Greeks againstTroy , while Hyginus states that Diomedes, when he heard, after the fall of Troy, of the misfortune of his grandfather Oeneus, hastened back and expelled Agrius, who then committedsuicide ; [Hyginus, "Fabluae" 175, comp. 242 and Antonin. Lib. 37] according to others, Agrius and his sons were all slain by Diomedes. [Comp. Pausanias, "Description of Greece" ii. 25. § 2] [Ovid , "Heroides " ix. 153]There was another mythological Agrius who was a son of
Odysseus byCirce and a brother ofLatinus andTelegonus , mentioned only inHesiod 's "Theogony ". [Hesiod , "Theogony " 1011f]The city of
Agrinio , the largest city inAetolia , took its name from Agrius.References
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