Thoas

Family: Tauri · Role: king · First appears: Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 1

Life events

• Iphigenia falsely declares the strangers polluted by matricide and claims the image must be purified outside.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 6 · 📍 temple)
  • With: Iphigenia
  • “They put an end to a mother's life by conspiring sword.”
• Iphigenia reveals to Thoas that Orestes and Agamemnon are alive.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 6)
  • With: Iphigenia Orestes
  • “That my only brother Orestes fares well.”
• Thoas accepts Iphigenia’s purification plan and permits her to take the strangers away.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 6)
  • With: Iphigenia
  • “Lead them whither thou wilt, I crave not to see things that may not be told.”
• Thoas orders the strangers fettered, brought to Iphigenia, and escorted by attendants.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 6)
  • With: Iphigenia Orestes Pylades
  • “Go for the fetters, attendants.”
• Thoas agrees to remain and purify the temple while Iphigenia handles the sacred image.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 6 · 📍 temple)
  • With: Iphigenia
  • “Purify the house with a torch.”
• The escaping siblings are attacked by Thoas’s men while attempting to launch their ship.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 7)
  • With: Orestes Iphigenia
  • “But naught the less we clung to the female stranger, and compelled them by force to follow us to thee, upon which arose sad smitings of the cheeks.”
• Athena commands Thoas to stop pursuing Orestes and Iphigenia.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 7)
  • With: Athena
  • “Cease pursuing, and stirring on the onset of your host.”
• Thoas accepts Athena’s command, abandons his attack, and permits the fugitives to depart.(Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 7)
  • With: Orestes Iphigenia
  • “But I will not be angry with Orestes, if he has carried away the image of the Goddess with him, nor with his sister.”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 1

• with Athena (Athena restrains Thoas from pursuing the escaping Greeks.) “Minerva appears, and restrains him from doing so”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 6

• with Iphigenia (Thoas is the king and Iphigenia is the priestess under his rule.) “O king, rest there thy foot in the portico.”
• enemies with Orestes (Thoas orders the capture of the strangers for sacrifice.) “TH. Go for the fetters, attendants. IPH. Ay, and let them bring the strangers hither.”
• enemies with Pylades (Thoas orders the capture of the strangers for sacrifice.) “TH. Go for the fetters, attendants. IPH. Ay, and let them bring the strangers hither.”

Euripides, Iphigenia In Tauris — Scene 7

• mentor: Athena “Whither, whither sendest thou this troop to follow [the fugitives,] king Thoas? List to the words of me, Minerva. Cease pursuing, and stirring on the onset of your host.”
• enemies with Orestes “But go, taking fetters and halters in your hands, for, unless the wave shall become tranquil, there is no hope of safety for the strangers.”
• enemies with Iphigenia “O all ye citizens of this barbarian land, will ye not, casting bridles on your horses, run to the shore, and receive the casting on of the Grecian ship? But hastening, by the favor of the Goddess, will ye not hunt down the impious men, and some of you haul the swift barks down to the sea, that by sea, and by horse-coursings on the land seizing them, we may either hurl them down the broken rock, or impale their bodies upon stakes.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.