Thoas
Role: person · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 4
In Book 2, Chapter 4, Thoas is identified as the younger son of Ornytion and the brother of Phocus; unlike Phocus, who colonized Tithorea, he remained at Corinth. He was the father of Demophon.
In Book 5, Chapter 3, Hæmon is named as the son of Thoas’s son, while Thoas’s sisters were mothers by Hercules of Andræmon and Hyllus. The same chapter refers to the overturning of Priam’s kingdom alongside the sons of Atreus. In Book 10, Chapter 38, Thoas is said to have brought Athene’s statue from Ilium as part of the Trojan spoil; it was at Amphissa.
Relationship record
Life events
- Thoas brought Athene’s statue from Ilium as Trojan spoil.(Book 10 · Chapter 38 · 📍 Amphissa)
- With: Athene
- “which they say was brought by Thoas from Ilium, and was part of the Trojan spoil.”
Book 2 · Chapter 4
- parent: Ornytion “but Thoas, the younger son of Ornytion, remained at Corinth.”
- siblings with Phocus (son of Ornytion) “And Phocus was the son of Ornytion, though nominally the son of Poseidon. And he colonized Tithorea in what is now called Phocis, but Thoas, the younger son of Ornytion, remained at Corinth.”
- child: Demophon “And Demophon was the son of Thoas”
Book 5 · Chapter 3
- child: Hæmon (Parent-to-child.) “he was the son of Hæmon, the son of Thoas”
- younger kin: Andræmon (The sisters of Thoas are Andræmon's mothers, making Thoas their maternal uncle.) “the sisters of Thoas were mothers by Hercules of Andræmon and Hyllus”
- younger kin: Hyllus (The sisters of Thoas are Hyllus's mothers, making Thoas their maternal uncle.) “the sisters of Thoas were mothers by Hercules of Andræmon and Hyllus”
- with Priam (Thoas participated in overthrowing Priam's kingdom.) “who in conjunction with the sons of Atreus had overturned the kingdom of Priam”
Book 10 · Chapter 38
- with Athene (Thoas brought the statue of Athene.) “statue of the goddess in a standing position, which they say was brought by Thoas from Ilium”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.