Thoas son of Andraimon
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Thoas
in the texts
Iliad
Aetolian ruler whose form Poseidon later assumes to address Idomeneus.
First he went up to Teucer and Leitos, the hero Peneleos, and Thoas and Deipyros;
Poseidon spoke in the likeness and with the voice of Thoas son of Andraimon who ruled the Aetolians of all Pleuron and high Calydon, and was honored in his district [ dêmos] as though he were a god.
Odyssey
A warrior in the embedded ambush tale who is sent running to the ships and whose cloak is thereby claimed by the narrator.
"On this Thoas son of Andraimon threw off his cloak and set out running to the ships, whereon I took the cloak and lay in it comfortably enough till morning.