Oxylus

Aetolian son of Haemon (or of Andraemon in the Eleian local tradition), exiled from his own country for a manslaughter, and by Delphic oracle the 'Three-Eyed One' the Heraclidae were told to take as guide for their return across the Gulf of Corinth (Apollodorus *Bibliotheca* 2.8.3; Pausanias 5.3.5–5.4.5; Strabo 8.3.30 + 10.3.4). The Heraclid scouts recognised the oracle in him when they met him on the road, riding a one-eyed horse — the missing eye put out by an arrow, so man-and-horse together had the three eyes the oracle had specified. Oxylus led the Dorians across the Rhion-Antirrhion strait, marched south with them, and — according to Paus. 5.4.1 — cheated the Eleians of the oracle's true meaning by ensuring his own Aetolian relations settled beside him. For his service Temenus, Cresphontes, and the sons of Aristodemus gave him Elis as his share of the partition, and he founded the royal house that claimed the administration of the Olympic festival in the historical period.

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