Opus I, king of the
Epeians and son of
Zeus by
Protogeneia, daughter of
Deucalion.[1] Opus was the father of
Cambyse or Protogeneia[2] who was carried off by Zeus to
Mt. Maenalus in
Arcadia where she bore a son, the below Opus who was then adopted by
Locrus as his own child, for the latter was barren.[3]
Opus II, son of Locrus or Zeus by
Cabya or Cambyse and thus a grandson of Opus I.[2] From him, a portion of the
Locris derived their name
Opuntii.[4] Locrus gave Opus a city and a people to govern and strangers came to him from
Argos,
Thebes, Arcadia and
Pisa. But among the settlers, he chiefly honored the son of
Actor and
Aegina,
Menoetius who became the father of
Patroclus.[3] In some accounts, after a quarrel between Opus and his father Locrus, the former took a great number of the citizens with him and went to seek an oracle about transplanting a new colony. The oracle told him to build a city where he should chance to be bitten by a wooden dog, and as he was crossing to the other sea, Opus trod upon a cynosbatus (a sweet brier). Greatly troubled by the wound, he spent several days there, during which he explored the country and found the cities
Physcus and
Oeantheia and the other cities which the so-called Ozolian Locrians inhabited.[5] Opus was the father of
Cynus, father of
Hodoedocus, father of
Oileus, father of
Ajax the Lesser.[4]
Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.
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Opus I, king of the
Epeians and son of
Zeus by
Protogeneia, daughter of
Deucalion.[1] Opus was the father of
Cambyse or Protogeneia[2] who was carried off by Zeus to
Mt. Maenalus in
Arcadia where she bore a son, the below Opus who was then adopted by
Locrus as his own child, for the latter was barren.[3]
Opus II, son of Locrus or Zeus by
Cabya or Cambyse and thus a grandson of Opus I.[2] From him, a portion of the
Locris derived their name
Opuntii.[4] Locrus gave Opus a city and a people to govern and strangers came to him from
Argos,
Thebes, Arcadia and
Pisa. But among the settlers, he chiefly honored the son of
Actor and
Aegina,
Menoetius who became the father of
Patroclus.[3] In some accounts, after a quarrel between Opus and his father Locrus, the former took a great number of the citizens with him and went to seek an oracle about transplanting a new colony. The oracle told him to build a city where he should chance to be bitten by a wooden dog, and as he was crossing to the other sea, Opus trod upon a cynosbatus (a sweet brier). Greatly troubled by the wound, he spent several days there, during which he explored the country and found the cities
Physcus and
Oeantheia and the other cities which the so-called Ozolian Locrians inhabited.[5] Opus was the father of
Cynus, father of
Hodoedocus, father of
Oileus, father of
Ajax the Lesser.[4]
Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.