Abas

Family: Boeotians · Role: father of Idmon · First appears: Book I 1

Life events

• Idmon is revealed as Phoebus’s son rather than Abas’s.(Book I 1)
  • With: Apollo Idmon
  • “He was not in truth the son of Abas, but Leto’s son himself begat him to be numbered among the illustrious Aeolids; and himself taught him the art of prophecy—to pay heed to birds and to observe the signs of the burning sacrifice.”

Book I 1

• child: Canethus “Canthus eager for the quest, whom Canethus son of Abas sent”

Book II 7

• child: Idmon “And here his destined fate smote Idmon, son of Abas, skilled in soothsaying;”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.