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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.
- Thoas (king of the Taurians)
He was king when Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia was taken to...
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Thoas may refer to several figures in Greek mythology: Thoas...
- Thoas (king of the Taurians)
Thoas, a king of the Taurians when Iphigenia became priestess of Artemis. He is sometimes identified with Thoas, the king of Lemnos above. Thoas, a king of Aetolia. He was the son of Andraemon and Gorge, and a Greek leader and hero in the Trojan War. Thoas, a king of Corinth.
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Thoas, and his twin brother Euneus, were the son of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and Hypsipyle, the daughter of King Thoas of Lemnos, who was the son of Dionysus and Ariadne. When the women of Lemnos massacred the Lemnian men, Hypsipyle secretly helped her father escape from the island.
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.
He was the king of Lemnos and married to Myrina, by whom he is the father of Hypsipyle and Sicinus. 2 All of the children of Dionysus became the founders of the Hellenic tribes in various places in the Aegean, where the non-Greek inhabitants were living.
