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- Thoas (or Thoon?), a Giant who, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, along with the Giant Agrius, was killed by the Moirai (Fates) with bronze clubs, during the Gigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants and the Olympian gods.
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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] 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 ...
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Hyginus provides an ending to Thoas' story, saying that the...
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Thoas may refer to several figures in Greek mythology: Thoas...
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She saved her old father from a certain death by putting him secretly on a boat without sculls. 3 Afterwards, however, he was discovered by the other women and killed, 4 or, alternatively, escaped to Tauris, 5 or to the rocky island of Oenoe, near Euboea, which was henceforth called Sicinus (Cyclades). 6 At Tauris (present-day Crym) he is said ...
THOAS was king of Lemnos and father of Hypsipyle. When the Lemnian women, enraged by jealousy, killed all the men on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father's life and helped him escape by boat (Heroides VI.139-140; Argonauticon II.311-430). Ysiphele, daughter of Thoas, is queen of Lemnos when Jason and his companions arrive, LGW 1465-1468.
Hypsipyle, in Greek legend, daughter of Dionysus’s son Thoas, king of the island of Lemnos. When the women of Lemnos, furious at their husbands’ betrayal, murdered all the men on the island, Hypsipyle hid her father and aided his escape. She became queen of the island and welcomed the Argonauts.
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. He was the only man to survive the massacre, having been saved by his daughter Hypsipyle.
