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In Greek mythology, Thoas ( Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") [1] was a son of the god Dionysus and Ariadne, the daughter of the Cretan king Minos. 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. [2]
Lemnos or Limnos ( Greek: Λήμνος; Ancient Greek: Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina. [2]
Charles. Herman. Thomas is a male name of Aramaic origins. The English spelling "Thomas" is a transliteration through Latin "Thomas", of the approximate Greek transliteration ( Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized : Thōmâs ), from Aramaic "תאמא" ("tɑʔwmɑʔ"), from Classic Syriac " ܬܐܡܐ" (toma), meaning ' twin '. Thomas is recorded in the ...
Thomas is the ninth most common surname in the United Kingdom. It is found as a personal name among Christians in India, it is also used as a family name among the Saint Thomas Christian families from Kerala, South India. In the 1990 United States Census, Thomas was the twelfth most common surname, accounting for 0.3% of the population.
In Greek mythology, Thoas ( Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") [1] was a king of the Taurians, a barbaric tribe in Crimea. [2] 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.
The trial of Theoris of Lemnos is the best-known of several classical Athenian trials of women who practiced magic; [1] it is also the best-attested, appearing in three ancient sources. [2] The earliest and most detailed source is Demosthenes ' [a] speech Against Aristogeiton, [3] which was addressed to jurors in the trial of Aristogeiton, an ...
Lemnian. The Lemnian language was spoken on the island of Lemnos, Greece, in the second half of the 6th century BC. [1] It is mainly attested by an inscription found on a funerary stele, termed the Lemnos stele, discovered in 1885 near Kaminia. Fragments of inscriptions on local pottery show that it was spoken there by a community. [2]
