Bias

Role: brother of Melampus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6

At Argos, during the reign of Anaxagoras, Melampus cured the women who had wandered from their homes and secured an equal share of the kingdom for himself and his brother Bias, along with Anaxagoras. Later, Book 4 says that the river Bias took its name from Bias, son of Amythaon.

Relationship record

Life events

• Melampus cured the wandering women and secured an equal share of the kingdom for himself and Bias.(Book 2 · Chapter 18 · 📍 Argos (son of Megapenthes))
  • With: Melampus Anaxagoras
  • “a madness came on the women, they went from their homes and wandered up and down the country, till Melampus the son of Amythaon cured them of that complaint, on condition that he and his brother Bias should share alike with Anaxagoras.”
• The river Bias received its name from Bias, son of Amythaon.(Book 4 · Chapter 34)
  • With: Amythaon
  • “the river Bias discharges itself into the sea, which river took its name they say from Bias the son of Amythaon.”

Book 2 · Chapter 6

• child: Talaus “Talaus, the son of Bias, the king of the Argives”

Book 2 · Chapter 18

• siblings with Melampus “on condition that he and his brother Bias should share alike with Anaxagoras”
• with Anaxagoras (Bias shared the kingdom with Anaxagoras.) “he and his brother Bias should share alike with Anaxagoras”

Book 2 · Chapter 21

• child: Talaus “the tomb of Talaus the son of Bias”

Book 4 · Chapter 34

• parent: Amythaon “which river took its name they say from Bias the son of Amythaon.”

Book 4 · Chapter 36

• siblings with Melampus “it was on their account that Melampus to gratify his brother Bias went to Thessalia”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.