Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Porthaon.
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Iliad
Homer
Homer names Portheus (Porthaon) as father of the horseman Oeneus — the Aetolian trunk from which Diomedes traces his Calydonian blood on the Trojan plain.
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Porthaon
King in Aetolia, father of Oeneus, Agrius, Melas, and their sisters — the stem of the Calydonian boar-hunt house.
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Oeneus
Porthaon's son — king of Calydon, father of Meleager and (by Periboea) Tydeus, the hinge of Aetolian heroic myth.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus sets Porthaon son of Agenor over the Aetolian line — the genealogical root of the Calydonian and Tydeid heroes.