InGreek mythology,Opheltes (Ancient Greek: Ὀφέλτης) may refer to several figures inGreek mythology, including:

• Opheltes, the infant son of Lycurgus ofNemea, killed by a serpent.^[1]
• Opheltes, one of theTyrrhenian pirates who attempted to deceive and kidnapDionysus, and were changed by the god into fish or dolphins.^[2]
• Opheltes, the son ofPeneleos, who died in theTrojan War. He was the father ofDamasichthon, a king ofThebes.^[3]
• Opheltes, an experiencedTrojan warrior. He was the father ofEuryalus who accompaniedAeneas to Italy.^[4]
• Opheltes, aDolionian killed byTelamon in the battle between the Dolionians and theArgonauts.^[5]
• Opheltes, son of Arestor, a soldier in the army of Dionysus during the Indian campaign, killed byDeriades.^[6]

• Hyginus, Gaius Julius,Fabulae inApollodorus'Library and Hyginus'Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Hackett Publishing Company, 2007.ISBN 978-0-87220-821-6.
• Nonnus,Dionysiaca; translated byRouse, W H D, II Books XVI–XXXV.Loeb Classical Library No. 345, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940.Internet Archive.
• Nonnus,Dionysiaca; translated byRouse, W H D, III Books XXXVI–XLVIII.Loeb Classical Library No. 346, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940.Internet Archive.
• Ovid,Metamorphoses, Brookes More, Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Parada, Carlos,Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993.ISBN 978-91-7081-062-6.
• Pausanias,Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Smith, William,Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Valerius Flaccus, Gaius,Argonautica, translated by J. H. Mozley,Loeb Classical Library No. 286. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Virgil,Aeneid [books 7–12], inAeneid: Books 7-12. Appendix Vergiliana, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold,Loeb Classical Library No. 64, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press, 2000.Online version at Harvard University Press.ISBN 978-0-674-99586-4.

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