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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, 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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This name is a perfect fit for some of the situations in which this king of Lemnos appeared, especially when he had to move quickly or hurry from one place to another. This mythical story is connected with some specific historical events which happened when the first Greek colonists came to the island of Lemnos (where the old pre-Hellenic ...
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 ...
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
Thomas Hunt King was born in Roseville, California, on April 24, 1943. [2] [3] He self-identifies as being of Cherokee, Greek, and German descent. [4] [3] King says his father left the family when the boys were very young, and that they were raised almost entirely by their mother. [5] [6] In his series of Massey Lectures, eventually published ...
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.