Aulis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aulis (Ancient Greek: Αὐλίς) was the eponym of the Boeotian town of Aulis.^[1]

Mythology

Aulis was a daughter of King Ogyges of Boeotia.^[2] Her sisters were Alacomenia and Thelxinoea, collectively called Praxidicae (Πραξιδίκαι), goddesses who watched over oaths.

Other traditions called Aulis a daughter of Euonymus, the son of the river-god Cephissus.^[3]

Notes

1. Pausanias, 9.19.5; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Αὐλίς
2. Suda s.v. Praxidike
3. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Αὐλίς

References

• 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.
• Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
• 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.
• Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.