Toxeus

Son of Eurytus of Oechalia, named first among the sons slain by Heracles at the sack of Oechalia (Diod. Sic. 4.37.5). Mortal-tier. Distinct from Toxeus son of Oeneus, killed by his own father at Calydon for leaping the ditch.

Parentage

• Eurytus

Domains

• archery

Powers

• Draws the inherited Oechalian bow

Relations

• father: Eurytus
• sibling: Iole
• sibling: Iphitus
• sibling: Clytius
• sibling: Deioneus
• sibling: Molion

Sources

• Diodorus Siculus 4.37.5; Apollodorus 2.7.7; Scholia to Sophocles Trachiniae 354 (Hesiod, Catalogue of Women)
• William Smith (ed.), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849), s.v. 'Toxeus (2)'
• Diodorus Siculus 4.37.5; Apollodorus 2.7.7