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.

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.

Thoas may refer to several figures in Greek mythology: Thoas (king of Lemnos), saved by his daughter Hypsipyle from the massacre by the Lemnian women, a son of Dionysus and Ariadne, sometimes identified with Thoas (king of the Taurians) below

Nov 13, 2024 · In Greek mythology, Thoas was a king of the Taurians, a tribe in Crimea, ruling when Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia arrived to serve as Artemis’s priestess.

Thoas, who received from his uncle Rhadamanthys the island of Lemnos (situated in the northern part of the Aegean Sea) became its king. After some time Thoas lost his throne when the women of the island revolted against their unfaithful husbands.

In Greek mythology, Thoas, son of Andraimon, was one of the heroes who fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War . He was a former suitor of Helen of Troy and led a group of forty ships for the Aetolians, one of the larger contigents.

Thoas is the son of Dionysus and Ariadne. He fathered Hypsipyle and Sicinus with his wife, Myrina. He was given Lemnos by Rhadamanthys, where he ruled until the women of Lemnos revolted against their unfaithful husbands.

Thoas, son of Andraimon and ruler of Calydon during the Trojan War, was a former suitor of Helen who led forty ships to battle. After the war, he returned safely to Calydon, where he offered refuge to Odysseus, marrying his daughter to the exiled hero.

Thoas, in Homer's Iliad, is a Trojan warrior killed by Menelaus during the Trojan War. [8] Thoas, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers. [9] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus. [10] Thoas, a companion of Aeneas in Italy.

Jan 9, 2017 · Thoas 2. A son of Dionysus and Ariadne. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 3.997; Stat. Theb. 4.769.) He was king of Lemnos and married to Myrina, by whom he became the father of Hypsipyle and Sicinus. (Hom. Il. 14.230; Diod. 5.79; Schol. ad Apollon. 1.601; Hygin. Fab. 15, 120 ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1374.