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In Greek mythology, Oxylus was a one-eyed man
from Aetolia who met Temenus, son of
Aristomaches, on a road. Temenus had been told by an oracle to look out for a man with three eyes, and Oxylus, having one eye himself and riding a horse or mule
with two more, matched that description. Oxylus then, as the oracle, had recommended,
accompanied Temenus and his brother, Cresphontes, in their invasion of the
Peloponnesus. For his aid, Oxylus received Elis, a fertile land, as his own.
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