Orestheus[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Ὀρεσθεύς derived from oresteros "mountainous" from όρος oros "mountain, hill"), in Greek mythology, was a name attributed to two individuals.
- Orestheus, a king of the Ozolian Locrians in Aetolia. He was the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the legendary progenitors of the Greek race. Orestheus was the brother of Pronous and Marathonius.[1] His dog was said to have given birth to a piece of wood which he concealed in the earth. In the spring, a vine grew forth from it, from the sprouts of which (Greek ὅζοι ozoi "branches") Orestheus derived the name of his people.[2]
- Orestheus, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[3] Nonacris[4] or by unknown woman. He was the reputed founder of Arcadian Oresthasion, which is said afterwards to have been called Oresteion, from Orestes.[5]
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edit- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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 Greece with 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- William Smith, Ed. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology - Orestheus
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