Oaxes Explained

In Greek mythology, Oaxes or Oaxos (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ὄαξος) was the founder of the town of Oaxus within Crete,^[1] a place known to Servius and Herodotus. He was the son of the god Apollo either by the Cretan nymph Anchiale^[2] or Acacallis, daughter of Minos.^[3] Apollonius wrote in Argonautica of Crete being the Oaxian land. Vibius Sequester wrote the river Oaxes gave its name (to the city Oaxia). The river Oaxes was, according to Baudrand, very cold.^[4]

References

• Publius Vergilius Maro, Eclogues. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1895. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

Notes and References

1. L Schmitz, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume 3, J Baylis 1873 (ed. W Smith) [Retrieved 2015-04-09]
2. [Maurus Servius Honoratus]
3. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
4. Publius Vergilius Maro, John Martyn, Bucolicorum Eclogae Decem ; The Bucolicks of Virgil with an English Translation and Notes (p. 29), Reily, 1749 (Original from Austrian National Library) [Retrieved 2015-04-08]