Biographical dictionary of ancient Greeks

< Ogygus, ancestry of Athenians >

1 Origin

Ogygus was born in 1770 BC near the Cephisus River in Phocis.

2 Family

Ogygus' son Eleusis founded Eleusis.

Some say that Ogygus himself founded Eleusis.

Ogygus had a daughter, Alalcomenia.

Ogygus had a daughter, Aulis.

3 Others

In 1750 BC, a great flood occurred upstream of the Cephisus River.

Ogygus led the Ectenes down the Cephisus River and settled in Boeotia. The Ectenes lived from Aulis in the east to Alalcomenae in the west.

Ogygus was the king of Ectenes.

The inhabitants of Boeotia were called Ectenes.

Boeotia was called Ogygia.

The northern gate of Thebes bears the name of Ogygus.

< Ogygus, father of Thebe >

1 Origin

Ogygus was born in Boeotia in 1610 BC.

Ogygus is a descendant of Ogygus, ancestor of the Athenians, and is thought to be the uncle of Cecrops, the first king of Athens.

Cecrops' father founded Sais in the Nile Delta in Egypt.

2 Family

Ogygus had a daughter, Thebe.

3 Others

Ogygus founded Thebes in Egypt.

Thebes was the town where Cadmus was later born, and is thought to have been in the Nile Delta, not in Upper Egypt.

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