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In Greek mythology, Oileus, or Oïleus was the King of Locris. With Eriopis he is father of Medon and Ajax. He was also an Argonaut and was a lover of Apollo. Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... Locris was a region of ancient Greece, made up of two districts. ... In Greek mythology, there were two people called Medôn. ... Ajax (Greek: Αἴας), a Greek hero, son of Oïleus the king of Locris, called the lesser or Locrian Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax, son of Telamon. ... The Black Sea near the shore of Colchis. ... Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. ...


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Oileus 1 was son of Hodoedocus and Agrianome.
Rhene 1 was the concubine of Oileus 1.
Oileus 1 had by her a bastard son Medon 1, who replaced Philoctetes as chief against Troy, and was commander of the Phthians.
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