Thoas (suitor of Penelope)

Thoas ( Greek Θόας ) is a person from Greek mythology .

He is in the Bibliotheke of Apollodor one of the suitors of Penelope , who among the 57 suitors from the Acarnanian Dulichium listed.

It has been suggested that either Penelope 's brother of the same name is based on a mix-up with the suitor, or that the suitor was formed after the brother's name.

literature

Otto Immisch : Thoas 8 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, column 822 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ Libraries of Apollodorus , Epitome 7, 27.
↑ Otto Immisch: Thoas 4 . In: Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology , pp. 821–822

[1] Libraries of Apollodorus , Epitome 7, 27.

[2] Otto Immisch: Thoas 4 . In: Detailed Lexicon of Greek and Roman Mythology , pp. 821–822