Oenomaus
father of Hippodamia; son of Ares
In Greek mythology, King Oenomaus (also Oenamaus; Ancient Greek: Οἰνόμαος, romanized: Oinómaos, lit. 'wine man', 'striving for wine', or 'eager for wine') of Pisa, was the father of Hippodamia and the son of Ares. His name Oinomaos denotes a wine man.
A typical Jupiter Trojan asteroid discovered in 2007 was named in honor of Oenomaus.
Family
Oenomaeus' mother was either naiad Harpina (daughter of the river god Phliasian Asopus) or Sterope, one of the Pleiades, whom some identify as his consort instead.
He married, if not Sterope, then Evarete of Argos, the daughter of Acrisius and Eurydice. Yet others give Eurythoe, daughter of Danaus, either as his mother or consort. His children besides Hippodamia were Leucippus (who perished because of his love for Daphne) and Alcippe (mother of Marpessa by Evenus). Pausanias, who is generally skeptical about stories of humans descending from gods, makes Oenomaus son of a mortal father, Alxion. John Tzetzes adduces a version which, in the same vein, calls Oenomaus son of a Hyperochus by Sterope. The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.
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