Thoas (son of Jason and Hypsipyle)

In Greek mythology, Thoas (Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift")[1] was a son of Jason and Hypsipyle, and a grandson of the Lemnian king Thoas, and the twin brother of Euneus.[2] Thoas and Euneus took part in the funeral games of the Nemean king Lycurgus' infant son Opheltes, after which they succeeded in rescuing their mother Hypsipyle from her sevitude.[3]

Euripides' Hypsipyle

Thoas was a character in Euripides' partially preserved play Hypsipyle.[4] Thoas and his brother Euneus, in search of their mother, arrive at the palace of Lycurgus in Nemea,[5] where their mother Hypsipyle is a slave, and the nurse of Lycugus' infant son Opheltes. Hypsipyle, who does not recognize her sons, greets them at the door.[6] After Opheltes, while in the care of Hypsipyle, is killed by a serpent, funeral games are held, in which Thoas and Euneus compete. There is a recognition scene in which Hypsipyle and her sons are reunited, and Thoas and Euneus manage to rescue their mother and they all return to Lemnos.[7]

Notes
  1. LSJ, s.v. Θόας.
  2. Grimal, s.v. Thoas 2; Parada, s.v. Thoas 9; Hard, pp. p. 384; Gantz, p. 346; Euripides, Hypsipyle; Palatine Anthology 3.10 [= Greek Anthology 3.10 = Euripides Hypsipyle test. Iv]; Statius, Thebaid 5.463–465, 6.340–345. According to Apollodorus 1.9.17, the sons of Jason and Hypsipyle were Euneus and Nebrophonus, while according to Hyginus, Fabulae 15, they were Euneus and Deipylus.
  3. Parada, s.v. Thoas 9; Hard, p. 318; Grimal, s.v. Thoas 2; Palatine Anthology 3.10 [= Greek Anthology 3.10 = Euripides Hypsipyle test. Iv] (which has the sons make themselves know to Hypsipyle by means of a "golden vine", a family emblem after which they rescue her); Statius, Thebaid 6.340–345, 433–435, 466, 475–476 (which has them compete in the chariot race); Vatican Mythographer, 2.141 [= Euripides Hypsipyle test. Va] (which has them "victorious in the foot-race").
  4. Collard and Cropp, pp. 251–255; Gantz, pp. 346, 511; Grimal, s.v. Thoas 2; Euripides Hypsipyle test. iiia (Hypothesis) [= P. Oxy. 2455 frs. 14–15, 3652 cols. i and ii.1-15].
  5. Euripides Hypsipyle test. iiia (Hypothesis), fr. 752c [= 764 Nauck].
  6. Euripides Hypsipyle fr. 752d.
  7. Euripides Hypsipyle fr. 759a.

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