Thaumas

This article describes the sea god Thaumas . There is also a centaur of the same name. For legal advisor, historian and numismatist, see Gaspard Thaumas de la Thaumassière .

Thaumas ( ancient Greek Θαύμας ) is a sea ​​god in Greek mythology . He is the son of Pontus and Gaia and, through the Ocean's daughter Elektra, father of the harpies and the iris . According to the late antique tradition, Thaumas is also the father of the Indian river god Hydaspes.

The name Thaumas was already associated with the word θαῦμα "miracle" in ancient times . This interpretation is rejected by the research that compares Thaumas with the mythical namesake of the Thessalian city Thaumakos .

literature

• Otto Höfer : Thaumas (1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 535 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hesiod Theogony 237. Library of Apollodor 1,2,6.
2. ^ Hesiod Theogony 267. Library of Apollodor 1,2,6.
3. ↑ Ovid Metamorphoses 4,480. 11,647. Statius Achilleis 1,220. Silven 3,3,81. 5.1,107. Thebais 10.123. Valerius Flaccus 7.398. 8.116.
4. ↑ Nonnos 26,359ff.
5. ↑ Plato 's Timaeus 296b. Stobaios Eclogues 1,30,1.