Thoas (king of Lemnos)

In Greek mythology, Thoas (Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift")^[1] was a son of the god Dionysus and Ariadne, the daughter of the Cretan king Minos. He was the king of Lemnos when the Lemnian women decided to kill all the men on the island. He was the only man to survive the massacre, having been saved by his daughter Hypsipyle.^[2] He is sometimes identified with the Thoas who was the king of the Taurians when Iphigenia was taken to the land of the Taurians and became a priestess of Artemis there.^[3]

^ LSJ, s.v. Θόας.
^ Grimal, s.v. Thoas 1; Tripp, s.v. Thoas 2.
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 120 considers them to be the same; cf. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.300–303. Parada, s.v. Thoas 3 treats them as the same, however Grimal (s.vv. Thoas 1, Thoas 3); Tripp (s.vv. Thoas 1, Thoas 2); and Smith 1873 (s.vv. Thoas 2, Thoas 4) all treat them separately, with Tripp s.v. Thoas 2 saying that "Hyginus confuses this Thoas [the king of Lemnos] with Thoas the king of the Taurians.

[1] LSJ, s.v. Θόας.

[2] Grimal, s.v. Thoas 1; Tripp, s.v. Thoas 2.

[3] Hyginus, Fabulae 120 considers them to be the same; cf. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.300–303. Parada, s.v. Thoas 3 treats them as the same, however Grimal (s.vv. Thoas 1, Thoas 3); Tripp (s.vv. Thoas 1, Thoas 2); and Smith 1873 (s.vv. Thoas 2, Thoas 4) all treat them separately, with Tripp s.v. Thoas 2 saying that "Hyginus confuses this Thoas [the king of Lemnos] with Thoas the king of the Taurians.

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