Boios

{{More sources needed|date=December 2009}}

Boios (Βοῖος), Latinized Boeus, was a Greek grammarian and mythographer, remembered chiefly as the author of a lost work on the transformations of mythic figures into birds, his Ornithogonia.{{Cite book |last=Hunter |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46QD6MxdH8cC&dq=Boios&pg=PA266 |title=The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions |date=2005-07-14 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-44404-0 |language=en}} Ornithogonia was translated into Latin by Aemilius Macer, a friend of Ovid, who was the author of the most familiar such collections of metamorphoses.{{Cite book |last=Knox |first=Peter E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMMeWI2xbPkC&dq=Boios&pg=PA219 |title=A Companion to Ovid |date=2009-04-29 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-1061-0 |language=en}} In the 2nd century CE, Antoninus Liberalis gave extremely brief summaries of the contents of some of the myths collected in Ornithogonia.

Boiai, Latinized Boeae, was a village in Lacedaemon, at the head of the Gulf of Laconia, that, as Pausanias was informed, had been founded by the eponymous Boeus, one of the Heracleidae (Pausanias, iii.22.12).