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.[3]
- Iasus, son of Io[4]
- Iasius (Iasion[5]), son of Eleuther and brother of Pierus. He was the father of Chaeresilaus[6] and Astreis.[7]
- Iasius, another name of Iasion.[8]
- Iasus (Iasius), the Arcadian father of Atalanta[9] 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.[10][11]
- Iasus, father of Nepeia, who married King Olympus and gave her name to the plain of Nepeia near Cyzicus.[12]
- Iasius, winner of the horse-racing contest at the Olympic games held by Heracles.[13]
- Iasus (Iasius), king of Orchomenus and son of Persephone, daughter of Minyas.[14] He was the father of Amphion, father of Chloris, wife of Neleus[15][16] and Phylomache, wife of Pelias.[17]
- Iasus, father of Phaedimus. His son was killed by Amyntas in the war of the Seven against Thebes.[18]
- Iasus, son of Sphelus (himself son of Bucolus), leader of the Athenians, was killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War.[19]
- Iasus, king of Cyprus, father of Dmetor. In the Odyssey, he appears in a story told (and made up) by Odysseus.[20]
- Iasus, father of Palinurus[21] and Iapis.[22]
Notes
- Pausanias, 5.14.7.
- Pausanias, 5.7.6.
- Apollodorus, 2.1.3.
- Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 1845
- Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.6
- Pausanias, 9.20.1.
- Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.8
- The form "Iasion" was also used by Pausanias and Aelian to refer to the father of Atalante.
- Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 217
- Apollodorus, 3.9.2.
- Hyginus, Fabulae 70, 99.
- Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1116
- Pausanias, 8.48.1.
- Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes (fr. 117 Fowler).
- Homer, Odyssey 11.233
- Pausanias, 9.36.8.
- Apollodorus, 1.9.10.
- Statius, Thebaid 8.438
- Homer, Iliad 15.332 & 338
- Homer, Odyssey 17.443
- Virgil, Aeneid 5.843
- Virgil, Aeneid 12.392
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.
- Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair ; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
- Callimachus, Works. A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the 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
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 556
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