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In Greek mythology, Thoas (Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") was a king of the Taurians, a barbaric tribe in Crimea. He was king when Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia was taken to the land of the Taurians, and became a priestess of Artemis there. He was a character in Euripides' play Iphigenia among the Taurians.
He was the king of Lemnos when the Lemnian women decided to kill all the men on the island. He was the only man to survive the massacre, having been saved by his daughter Hypsipyle. He is sometimes identified with the Thoas who was the king of the Taurians when Iphigenia was taken to the land of the Taurians and became a priestess of Artemis there.
Thoas, king of the Taurians, enters and asks whether or not the first rites have been performed over the strangers. Iphigenia has just retrieved the statue from the temple and explains that when the strangers were brought in front of the statue, the statue turned and closed its eyes.
THOAS, King of the Taurians HERDSMAN MESSENGER MINERVA CHORUS OF GREEK WOMEN, captives, attendants on IPHIGENIA in the Scene Before the great temple of Diana of the Taurians. A blood- stained altar is prominently in view. IPHIGENIA, clad as a priestess, enters from the temple.
Artemis brings Iphigenia to the land of the Taurians and makes her a priestess of her own temple.
274–296. Published: December 2012. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. Thoas and the Taurians have been central to the 20 th - and 21 st -century reception of Iphigenia in Tauris, especially in anti-imperial and postcolonial writers such as the Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes.
In Greek mythology, Thoas (Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") was a king of the Taurians, a barbaric tribe in the Crimea. He was king when Agamemnon 's daughter Iphigenia was taken to the land of the Taurians, and became a priestess of Artemis there.
