Toxeus

In Greek mythology, the name Toxeus (Τοξεύς) refers to:

• A son of Thestius, brother of Althaea, who participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He was angry that the prize of the boar's hide had been given to a woman (Atalanta) by his nephew Meleager, who then killed him in the ensuing argument.^[1]
• A son of Oeneus and brother of Meleager (which makes him a nephew of the other Toxeus). He was killed by his father for overleaping the trench which had been dug around Calydon.^[2][3] (This is paralleled by Remus overleaping that of Rōmulus.^[4] Cf. also the story of Poemander).
• A son of Eurytus, brother of Clytius and Molion. All three were slain by Heracles.^[5]

Notes

1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8. 300ff; 441 ff
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 8. 1
3. Robert Graves : The Greek Myths, §80.1
4. Robert Graves : The Greek Myths, §80.2
5. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 37. 5