Thoas
mythological figure · 3 works · 10 mentions · 15 anchored passages
son of Andraimon · Thoas of Aetolia · lord · noble Thoas · the king · the ruler of this land
in the texts
Iliad
Aetolian warrior who avenges Diores by killing Peirous, though he is prevented from stripping the body.
As he was leaving the body, Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs.
After these Eurypylos son of Euaemon, Thoas the son of Andraimon, and Odysseus also rose.
When she came to Athos she went on over the, waves of the sea [ pontos] till she reached Lemnos, the city of noble Thoas.
Iphigenia in Tauris
Barbarian king of the Taurians, ruler of the land where Iphigenia serves as priestess.
A barbarian rules this land of barbarians:
Thoas:
Thoas:
The Histories
Legendary figure whose companions (husbands of the Lemnian women) were killed in the earlier Lemnian massacre that gave rise to the proverb 'Lemnian crime.'
From this deed and the earlier one which was done by the women when they killed their own husbands who were Thoas ' companions, a “Lemnian crime” has been a proverb in Hellas for any deed of cruelty.