Iasos (son of Triopas)

Iasos ( ancient Greek Ϊασος ) is a son of Triopas and Soïs in Greek mythology . He succeeded his father as King of Argos . He is the brother of Pelasgos , Agenor and Xanthos . Krotopos , son of his brother Agenor, succeeded him. According to Pausanias , Io is his daughter.

With Pelasgos he is said to have ruled over Argos, one over the western, the other over the eastern part of the kingdom.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scholion to Eur. Orestes. 920; see also Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 145.
2. ↑ Hellanikos , fragments of the Greek historians 4 F 36a and 36b ( Scholion zu Iliad 3; 75); Scholion to Eur. Orestes. 920.
3. ↑ Pausanias 2:16 , 1.
4. ↑ Hellanikos, Fragments of the Greek Historians 4 F 36a and 36b.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Iasos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 88 f. ( Digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Triopas	King of Argos 16th century BC Chr. (Fictional chronology)	Krotopos