Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Oileus.
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Iliad
Homer
Homer names Oileus as father of the Locrian Ajax — the swift lesser Ajax who leads forty ships from Locris and stands apart from Telamonian Ajax.
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Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollonius lists Oileus among the Argonauts — the Locrian hero as an earlier generation before his son's Trojan fame.
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Ajax the Lesser
Oileus' son — the Locrian Ajax of the sack of Troy and Athena's storm, forever tagged as son of Oileus to keep him from Telamon's heir.
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Oileus
King of Locris, Argonaut, father of Ajax the Lesser — the Locrian stem behind the lesser Ajax of the Iliad.