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
- Iasus, son of Io[3]
- Iasius, son of Eleuther and father of Chaeresilaus.[4]
- Iasius, same as Iasion.[5]
- Iasus (Iasius), the Arcadian father of Atalanta[6] 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.[7][8]
- Iasus, father of Nepeia, who married King Olympus and gave her name to the plain of Nepeia near Cyzicus.[9]
- Iasius, winner of the horse-racing contest at the Olympic games held by Heracles.[10]
- Iasus (Iasius), king of Orchomenus and son of Persephone, daughter of Minyas.[11] He was the father of Amphion, father of Chloris, wife of Neleus[12][13] and Phylomache, wife of Pelias[14].
- Iasus, father of Phaedimus. His son was killed by Amyntas in the war of the Seven against Thebes.[15]
- Iasus, son of Sphelus (himself son of Bucolus), leader of the Athenians, was killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War.[16]
- Iasus, king of Cyprus, father of Dmetor. In the Odyssey, he appears in a story told (and made up) by Odysseus.[17]
- Iasus, father of Palinurus[18] and Iapis.[19]
Notes
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 14. 7
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 7. 6
- ^ Eustathius on Homer's Iliad, 1845
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 20. 2
- ^ The form "Iasion" was also used by Pausanias and Aelian to refer to the father of Atalante.
- ^ Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 217
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.9.2
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 70 & 99
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 1116
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 48. 1
- ^ Scholia on Odyssey, 11. 281 citing Pherecydes (fr. 117 Fowler).
- ^ Homer, Odyssey, 11. 233
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 36. 8
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 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
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- 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.
- 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, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available 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. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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.
- Pseudo-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.
- 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.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available 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, Wiliam. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 556