Abas

Family: Argos · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.2

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Abas)

Life events

• Abas fathered twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2)
  • With: Acrisius Proetus Aglaia
  • “and Abas had twin sons Acrisius and Proetus by Aglaia, daughter of Mantineus.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.2

• parent: Lynceus “Lynceus reigned over Argos after Danaus and begat a son Abas by Hypermnestra;”
• parent: Hypermnestra “Lynceus reigned over Argos after Danaus and begat a son Abas by Hypermnestra;”
• child: Acrisius “and Abas had twin sons Acrisius and Proetus by Aglaia, daughter of Mantineus.”
• child: Proetus “and Abas had twin sons Acrisius and Proetus by Aglaia, daughter of Mantineus.”
• child: Idomene “But Melampus, son of Amythaon by Idomene, daughter of Abas, being a seer and the first to devise the cure by means of drugs and purifications,”

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