Piasos

Piasos ( Greek  Πίασος ) is in Greek mythology a Pelasgian ruler in the Phryconian Larisa on Hermos and father of Larisa .

Piasus, who wanted to marry his daughter to Kyzikos , the young king of the Dolions , had previously done violence to his daughter. In revenge, she grabbed her father by the feet and threw him upside down into a wine barrel as he was bending over it. He was worshiped in the city.

literature

• Otto Höfer : Piasos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2493 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Euphorion in a Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodos, Argonautika 1, 1063; Parthenios of Nicaea 28.
2. ^ Strabo , Geographica 13, 3, 4.