Pausanias' Description of Greece

Thasus

Family: Thasian · Role: son of Agenor · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 25

Life events

  • Thasians sailed from Tyre and Phoenice to Europe with Thasus, son of Agenor.(Book 5 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Europe)
  • The Thasians dedicated a brass statue and base of Hercules at Olympia.(Book 5 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Olympia)
    • With: Hercules
    • “The Thasians also (who were Phœnicians originally, and sailed from Tyre and other parts of Phœnice to Europe with Thasus the son of Agenor), made a votive offering of Hercules at Olympia”
  • After becoming naturalized Greeks, the Thasians changed their worship to Hercules son of Amphitryon.(Book 5 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Thasos)
    • With: Hercules
    • “but afterwards, when they became naturalized as Greeks, they worshipped Hercules the son of Amphitryon.”

Book 5 · Chapter 25

  • parent: Agenor (father of Thasus) “sailed from Tyre and other parts of Phœnice to Europe with Thasus the son of Agenor”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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