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In Greek mythology, Thoas (Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") 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.
Sometimes it was said that Thoas' father was Theseus, perhaps not only due to the reason that Thoas' mother Ariadne and Theseus were lovers, but also because Thoas' kingdom was under the control of the Athenians. He was the king of Lemnos and married to Myrina, by whom he is the father of Hypsipyle and Sicinus. 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]
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Apr 27, 2024 · Located on Pourniás Bay, Hephaestia was the principal city of Lemnos in Classical times; today it is occupied by the hamlet of Palaiópolis. Toward the end of the 6th century bce, the island was conquered by Otanes, a general of the Persian king Darius.
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Lemnos History. ©Greeka.com. According to ancient Greek mythology, Lemnos was the island of Hephaestus, the god of fire and volcanoes. A myth says that he landed on this island when Hera, his mother, threw him from Mount Olympus, where the Gods lived because she saw that he was an ugly baby.
Lemnos in Mythology For ancient Greeks, the island was sacred to Hephaestus , god of technology, who fell on Lemnos when his father Zeus hurled him headlong out of Olympus. There, he was cared for by the Sinties , according to Iliad or by Thetis (Apollodorus, Bibliotheke I:3.5), and there with a Thracian nymph Kabiro (a daughter of Proteus) he ...
Zeus threw him following a fight with his mother Hera and was welcomed from Sinti, the excellent metallurgists. Hephaestus set up his workshop in Lemnos and became the patron god of the island. Thoas, the first mythical king of Lemnos and son of Dionysus and Ariadne, was married to Myrina.
