Oenoe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Oenoe or Oinoe (Οἰνόη) may refer to:

• Oenoe, an impious Pygmy woman, wife of Nicodamas and mother of Mopsus. She was changed by Hera into a crane because of her impiety; Hera also made the Pygmies start a war against cranes. Oenoe, missing her son, would still come near the house where he lived, which caused the war to go on and on.^[1] This Oenoe is otherwise known as Gerana.

• Oenoe, eponym of a deme in Attica (now Oinoi), sister of Epochus.^[2]

• Oenoe, an Arcadian nymph, one of the nurses of infant Zeus.^[3] She is probably the same as Oenoe, possible mother of Pan by Aether,^[4] and Oeneis, also a possible mother of Pan, this time by Zeus.^[5]

• Oenoe or Oenoie, Naiad nymph of the homonymous island, mother of Sicinus by Thoas.^[6]

• Oenoe, a Maenad follower of Dionysus.^[7]

References

1. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 16
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 33. 8
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 47. 3
4. Scholia on Euripides, Rhesus, 36
5. Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 1. 3
6. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 620 ff with scholia on 1. 623
7. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 29. 253