Thasus

Thasus
Thasus
Eponym of Thasos
Member of the Phoenician Royal Family
Abode	Phoenicia
Genealogy
Parents	(a) Poseidon; (b) Agenor; (c) Phoenix; (d) Cilix
Siblings	(b) Europa, Cilix and Phoenix; (c) Europa and Cadmus; (d) Thebe

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]

Notes

^ Apollodorus, 3.1.1
^ Pausanias, 5.25.12; Scholiast on Euripides, Phoenissae 6
^ ^a ^b Conon, Narrations 32
^ Apollodorus, 3.1.1 with Pherecydes as the authority
^ Herodotus, 2.44; Pausanias, 5.25.12; Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 646 ff.; Conon, Narrations 37

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.

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