A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ὀγχηστός), a son of Poseidon, and founder of the town of Onchestus, where the Onchestian Poseidon had a temple and a statue. (Paus. 9.26.3; Stephl. Bvz. s.v. Hom. Il. 2.506.) Another tradition called this Onichestus a son of Boeotus.

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