Thasus

Thasus

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For the insect genus, see Thasus (bug).

In Greek mythology, Thasus or Thasos (/ˈθeɪsəs/ or /ˈθeɪzəs/; Ancient Greek: Θάσος) was a son of Poseidon[1] (or, in other versions, Agenor,[2] Phoenix[3] or Cilix[4]). In the stories, he was a Phoenician prince and one of those who set out from Phoenicia in search of Europa (Thasus' sister[3]). His brother, Cadmus, gave him a part of the army and left him on an island (i.e. Thasos) where he "founded" the eponymous town of Thasos.[5]

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  1. [1]
    Apollodorus, 3.1.1
  2. [2]
    Pausanias, 5.25.12; Scholiast on Euripides, Phoenissae 6
  3. [3]
    Conon, Narrations 32
  4. [4]
    Apollodorus, 3.1.1 with Pherecydes as the authority
  5. [5]
    Herodotus, 2.44; Pausanias, 5.25.12; Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 646 ff.; Conon, Narrations 37

References

  • Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. ISBN 0-674-99133-8. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)


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