Iasus
In Greek mythology, Iasus (/ˈaɪ.ə.səs/; Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) or Iasius (/aɪˈeɪʒəs/; Ἰάσιος) was the name of several people:
- Iasus (Iasius), one of the Dactyli[1] or Curetes.[2]
- Iasus, king of Argos
- Iasus, son of Io[3]
- Iasius, son of Eleuther and father of Chaeresilaus.[4]
- Iasius, same as Iasion.[5]
- Iasus (Iasius), father of Atalanta[6] by Clymene, daughter of Minyas; he was the son of King Lycurgus of Arcadia by either Eurynome or Cleophyle. His brothers were Ancaeus, Epochus and Amphidamas.[7][8]
- Iasus, father of Nepeia, who married King Olympus and gave her name to the plain of Nepeia near Cyzicus.[9]
- Iasius, winner of the horse-racing contest at the Olympic games held by Heracles.[10]
- Iasus (Iasius), king of Orchomenus[11] and possible father of Amphion, father of Chloris, wife of Neleus.[12][13]
- Iasus, father of Phaedimus. His son was killed by Amyntas in the battle of Seven Against Thebes.[14]
- Iasus, son of Sphelus (himself son of Bucolus), leader of the Athenians, was killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War.[15]
- Iasus, king of Cyprus, father of Dmetor. In the Odyssey, he appears in a story told (and made up) by Odysseus.[16]
- Iasus, father of Palinurus[17] and Iapis.[18]
Notes
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 14. 7
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 7. 6
- Eustathius on Homer's Iliad, 1845
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 20. 2
- The form "Iasion" was also used by Pausanias and Aelian to refer to the father of Atalante.
- Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis, 217
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 2
- Hyginus, Fabulae, 70 & 99
- Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 1116
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 48. 1
- Scholia on Odyssey, 11. 281, citing Pherecydes (fr. 117 Fowler).
- Homer, Odyssey, 11. 233
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 36. 8
- Statius, Thebaid, 8. 438
- Homer, Iliad, 15. 332, 338
- Homer, Odyssey, 17. 443
- Virgil, Aeneid, 5. 843
- Virgil, Aeneid, 12. 392
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References
- Bulfinch, Thomas (1979). "Stories of Gods and Heroes: Chapter XVIII: Meleager and Atalanta". Bulfinch's Mythology. Avenel Books. p. 138. ISBN 0-517-27415-9.
- Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0198147404.
- Smith, Wiliam. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 556
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