Thoas (son of Dionysus)
Thoas ( Greek Θόας , the quick ), the son of Dionysus and Ariadne , was a king of Lemnos in Greek mythology . He was the father of the Hypsipyle and the brother of Staphylos , Oinopion and Peparethos .
Thoas was a general of Rhadamanthys . For his loyal service he received the island of Lemnos from him. He founded the city of Lemnos (Myrina) and set himself as king over the islanders. He married Myrina and fathered Hypsipyle with her. When the Lemnian women killed all the men, Hypsipyle spared her father. According to one story, she hid him, but the women found him, killed him, and sold Hypsipyle to Lycurgus . Another version says that she hid her father in a box and threw him into the sea. Fishermen from the island of Oinoe found him and brought him ashore. He married the nymph Oinoe and begat the Sikinos with her . A third variant reports that he came to Chios , the island of his brother Oinopion, and that he now ruled over it.
From his father Dionysus he had received valuable items, a holy robe and two silver cups, which he left for his daughter.
swell
- Library of Apollodorus , 1, 114-115; 3, 65; 4, 9.
- Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika , 1, 609; 1, 708-717; 1,774; 4, 421.
- Diodor , Bibliotheca historica , 5, 79, 2.
- Herodotus , Histories , 6, 138.
- Homer , Iliad , 14, 222.
- Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae , 15; 74; 254.
- Quintus of Smyrna , Posthomerica , 4, 365.
- Ovid , Heroides , 103; 129; 151
- Ovid, Metamorphoses , 13, 399.
- Publius Papinius Statius , Thebais , 5, 39; 5, 265; 5; 486.
literature
- Otto Immisch : Thoas 1a . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 803-808 ( digitized version ).