Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Oeagrus.
In play
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Orpheus
Oeagrus is the Thracian king (or wine-hero) most often named as Orpheus' father by Calliope — the mortal stem of the singer who moved the underworld.
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Oeagrus
King of Thrace, husband of Calliope, father of Orpheus and (in some accounts) Linus — the Oeagrides as a byname of the Muses.
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Calliope
The Muse of epic song is Oeagrus' consort in the standard Orphic genealogy — Apollo sometimes named instead as Orpheus' father.
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Dionysiaca
Nonnus
Nonnus brings Oeagrus into Dionysus' Indian war as a harper and father of Orpheus — late epic keeping the Thracian king on the god's campaign.