AGE AND ANCESTRY

[...] and that Orpheus was not a contemporary of Heracles. The same author (24, 16 Hermann edition) asks: "For how could Linus, having been killed, have educated Orpheus later?" One certainly could not say it happened before his death. For Orpheus was not a contemporary of Heracles, but lived during the time of the Trojan War, as we have shown; see also 25, 15; 26, 1; 27, 1.

FATHER

22. Apollo in an oracle according to Menaechmus of Sicyon, no. 114, whom Pindar seems to have preceded in Pythian Odes IV 176 (no. 58); Asclepiades of Tragilus in the sixth book of Tragedians (FHG III 303 fragment 8; Scholia on Pindar IV 176; Scholia on Apollonius I 32; Scholia A on Rhesus 895) records that Hymenaeus, Ialemus, and Orpheus were the children of Apollo and Calliope. See also Ovid, Metamorphoses X 167 (see also XI 7; Kern, Orphic Fragments 7 n. 1). Apollodorus, Library I 14: "Now, of Calliope and Oeagrus—though by reputation original: kat’ epiklesin of Apollo—were born Linus, whom Heracles killed, and Orpheus, who practiced singing to the lyre original: kitharoidia, who by singing moved both stones and trees." Scholia on Ovid's Ibis 482 (page 84 Ellis): "Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus (son of Oeagrus and Calliope, according to others son of Phoebus and Calliope), while fleeing Aristaeus, died when bitten by a snake."

23. Oeagrus (concerning the name, see Bechtel in Kern, loc. cit. 16). Pindar, fragment 139 a. b. Schneider (Scholia A on Rhesus 895; cf. Scholia on Pindar no. 22); Plato, Symposium 179 d no. 60; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica I 23: "First, let us now remember Orpheus, whom they say Calliope herself, having shared the bed of the Thracian Oeagrus near the Pimpleian height, gave birth to." Orpheus is called "Son of Oeagrus" by Nicander, Theriaca 462 no. 51; Hermesianax no. 61; Phanocles no. 77; Pseudo-Aristotle, Peplus 48 no. 124; Ovid, Ibis 480; Apollodorus, Library no. 22; see also Gruppe in Roscher III 1073 and Robert, Hero-Sagas I 410 n. 5.

Regarding Oeagrus as a Thracian river, see Servius on the Aeneid VI 645; Toepffer, Attic Genealogy 34 n. 1. Oeagrus is described as "fifth from Atlas through Alcyone" in the Suda, no. 223. He is called the son of Pierus by Hellanicus (see A. de Blumenthal loc. cit. 18, nos. 8, 9), Robert, loc. cit., and Charax fragment 20 (FHG III 641 no. 9). He is called the son of Charopis (Maaß, Orpheus 153 n. 46) in Diodorus Siculus III 65, 6 (Lobeck I 238): "Charops' son was Oeagrus, who took over both the kingship and the rites handed down in the mysteries; later Orpheus, the son of Oeagrus, having learned them from his father and surpassing all in nature and education, changed many things in the secret rites original: orgia. Because of this, the rites established by Dionysus were called Orphic." He is called the son of Mars (Ares) by Nonnus, Dionysiaca XIII 428: "And the bold son of Ares was Oeagrus, who, leaving Pimpleia, lived as a citizen of the Bistonis land."