Oxylus was exiled from Aetolia on account of unintentional homicide; his victim was either his own brother Therimus or a certain Alcidocus, son of Scopius.
[8] In accordance with a prophecy of the oracle, he brought in Agorius, great-grandson of Orestes and thus a descendant of Pelops, as a co-founder.
[6] By his wife Pieria, Oxylus had two sons: Aetolus, who died before his parents and was buried next to the gate leading to Olympia, and Laias, who inherited the kingdom after him.
[10] A descendant, Iphitus, re-established the Olympic Games, an event connected by some authors with the first Olympiad in 779 BC.
[11][12] A family claiming descent from Oxylus is attested at Elis from the fourth century BC until AD 157.