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Thoas (king of Lemnos) 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 ...
Thoas (king of the Taurians) 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 ...
In Greek mythology, Thoas ( Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") [1] may refer to the following figures: Thoas, a king of Lemnos saved by his daughter Hypsipyle from the massacre by the Lemnian women. He was a son of Dionysus and Ariadne, and sometimes identified with Thoas, the king of the Taurians, below. Thoas, a king of the Taurians ...
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by Dr. Alena Trckova-Flamee, Ph.D. According to the myths Thoas was one of the sons of the wine god Dionysus and his wife Ariadne. 1 Thoas' brothers were Oenopion, Staphylus, Latramys, Euanthes, and Tauropolus. Sometimes it was said that Thoas' father was Theseus, perhaps not only due to the reason that Thoas' mother Ariadne and Theseus were ...
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]
- Greece
- North Aegean
- 470 m (1,540 ft)
- Lemnos
Lemnos is an invisible volcano ready to erupt. A mysterious island that used to be tainted from the activity of two volcanoes covered in ash and dense clouds of smoke for a long time until it finally appeared to write its own story in the Aegean. Lemnos will charm you from the first moment with its exceptional romantic atmosphere and its ...
Thoas (king of Corinth), a son of Ornytion and a grandson of Sisyphus. Thoas (son of Jason and Hypsipyle), a son of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and Hypsipyle the daughter of Thoas, the king of Lemnos (above), and the brother of Euneus. Thoas (mythology), other figures named "Thoas" in Greek mythology. Thoas may also refer to: 4834 Thoas ...
