Oenotrus

For the moth genus, seeOenotrus (moth).

InGreek mythology,Oenotrus(Ancient Greek:Οἴνωτρος,romanized:Oínōtros) was the youngest of fifty sons ofLycaonfromArcadia.Together with his brotherPeucetius(Πευκέτιος), he migrated to theItalian Peninsula,dissatisfied because of the division ofPeloponnesusamong the fifty brothers by their father Lycaon. According to theGreekandRomantraditions, this was the first expedition dispatched from Greece to found a colony, long before theTrojan War.He was the likelyeponymofOenotria(Οἰνωτρία), giving his name to the Italian peninsula, especially the Southern Pass (modernCalabria).

References

• Dionysus of Halicarnassus,Roman Antiquities.English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt,Vol I-IV..Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.