Oeagrus

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Oeagrus (Ancient Greek: Οἴαγρος; Modern Greek: Οίαγρος) in Greek mythology was a king of Thrace. He and the muse Calliope were possibly the parents of Orpheus and Linus. He was also sometimes called the father of Marsyas. He ruled over the Edonian kingdom in the the region of Mygdonia. He is sometimes called the son of Ares, but other times Charops is mentioned as his father, which explains his inheritance of the throne.

Oeagrus is given as the father of Orpheus with mother Calliope (sometimes Apollo is given as the father), and he is described as "a Thracian wine-god, who was himself descended from Atlas.

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• Kathleen Freeman. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946.

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