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The island was called Thera after the name of its founder. This same
Theras had a son, who refused to cross the sea with him; Theras
therefore left him behind, "a sheep," as he said, "among
wolves." From this speech his son came to be called Oeolycus, a
name which afterwards grew to be the only one by which he was known.
This Oeolycus was the father of Aegeus, from whom sprang the
Aegidae, a great tribe in Sparta. The men of this tribe lost at one
time all their children, whereupon they were bidden by an oracle to
build a temple to the furies of Laius and Oedipus; they complied,
and the mortality ceased. The same thing happened in Thera to the
descendants of these men.
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