Thoas
Family: Lemnos · Role: king · First appears: Book I 5
Life events
- Hypsipyle spares Thoas and sends him adrift in a hollow chest.(Book I 5 · 📍 Lemnos)
- With: Hypsipyle
- “And of all the women, Hypsipyle alone spared her aged father Thoas, who was king over the people; and she sent him in a hollow chest, to drift over the sea, if haply he should escape.”
- Oenoe bears Sicinus to Thoas, and the island is later renamed Sicinus.(Book I 5 · 📍 Oenoe)
- The Argonauts believe Thoas dead and recognize his daughter Hypsipyle as queen.(Book I 6)
- With: Hypsipyle
- “And they deemed that Thoas was dead and that his beloved daughter Hypsipyle was queen”
Book I 5
- child: Hypsipyle “And of all the women, Hypsipyle alone spared her aged father Thoas, who was king over the people”
- child: Sicinus “afterwards called Sicinus from Sicinus, whom the water-nymph Oenoe bore to Thoas”
- patron: Hypsipyle (Hypsipyle protects Thoas by sending him away to escape.) “And of all the women, Hypsipyle alone spared her aged father Thoas, who was king over the people; and she sent him in a hollow chest, to drift over the sea, if haply he should escape.”
Book I 6
- child: Hypsipyle “The maiden Hypsipyle daughter of Thoas, sent me on my way here to you, to summon the captain of your ship, whoever he be, that she may tell him a word that pleases the heart of the people, and she bids yourselves, if ye wish it, straightway enter the land and the city with friendly intent.”
Book IV 4
- parent: Dionysus (Dionysus is Thoas’s father.) “and he gave it to his son Thoas thereafter”
- with Hypsipyle (Thoas passed the sacred robe to Hypsipyle.) “and Thoas left it to Hypsipyle”
- with Dionysus (Dionysus gave Thoas the robe.) “The Graces with their own hands had wrought it for Dionysus in sea-girt Dia, and he gave it to his son Thoas thereafter”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.