Thracian king and husband of the Muse Calliope, by whom — or nominally by Apollo — she bore the singers Orpheus and Linus near the Pimpleian height on Olympus.1
Apollodorus names Oeagrus as the mortal father of Orpheus in both the genealogical catalogue and the Argonaut muster: Calliope bore to Oeagrus, or nominally to Apollo, the minstrel whose songs moved stones and trees and the elder Linus, whom Heracles later slew.2⚖
Apollonius opens the Argonaut roll with Orpheus, whom Calliope bore wedded to Thracian Oeagrus near the Pimpleian height — fixing the bard's Pierian birth in the landscape of Olympus' northern slope.3⚖
Hyginus lists Orpheus among Jason's comrades as son of Oeagrus and the Muse Calliope, prophet and cithara-player from Pieria on Olympus.4⚖
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