king of the Thebans, or, as others, of Ogygia and Aetæ, afterwards called Brotia and Attica. He is recorded to have been the first founder of Thebes and Eleusin. The famous deluge happened in his time, in which some say he perished with all his subjects, 1796 B.C.

Ogygia, (Homer), the island of Calypso; placed by Pliny in the Sinus Scylaceus, in the Ionian sea, opposite to the promontory Lacinium; by Mela in the strait of Sicily, calling it Ææe; which others place at the promontory Circeium, and call it the island of Circe.