Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Oicles.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus places Oecles in the Melampodid line as father of Amphiaraus — the seer-house that marches on Thebes and ends in earth-swallowing prophecy.
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Oicles
Son of Antiphates, husband of Hypermnestra, father of Amphiaraus — Melampus' descendant who fights with Heracles at Troy in some accounts and founds the Amphiaraid house.
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Amphiaraus
Oecles' son — the reluctant prophet bribed into the Theban war, swallowed by the earth, worshipped as oracle-hero at Oropos.
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Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
Aeschylus' war keeps Amphiaraus as Oecles' heir at the seventh gate — the Melampodid foresight that cannot refuse Eriphyle's necklace.