Iasus

Name of several figures in Greek mythology

For the town of ancient Laconia, see Iasus (Laconia).

In Greek mythology, Iasus (/ˈaɪ.ə.səs/; Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) or Iasius (/aɪˈeɪʒəs/; Ἰάσιος) was the name of several people:

* Iasus (Iasius), one of the Dactyli[1] or Curetes.[2]
* Iasus, king of Argos.[3]
* Iasus, son of Io[4]
* Iasius (Iasion[5]), son of Eleuther and brother of Pierus. He was the father of Chaeresilaus[6] and Astreis.[7]
* Iasius, another name of Iasion.[8]
* Iasus (Iasius), the Arcadian father of Atalanta[9] by Clymene, daughter of Minyas; he was the son of King Lycurgus of Arcadia by either Eurynome or Cleophyle. His brothers were Ancaeus, Epochus and Amphidamas.[10][11]
* Iasus (Iasius), father of King Amphion of Orchomenus. The latter married Persephone, daughter of Minyas,[12] and fathered Chloris and Phylomache who both married the twins, Neleus[13] and Pelias,[14] respectively. This Iasius is likely the same with the above Iasus.
* Iasus, father of Nepeia, who married King Olympus and gave her name to the plain of Nepeia near Cyzicus.[15]
* Iasius, winner of the horse-racing contest at the Olympic games held by Heracles.[16]
* Iasus, father of Phaedimus. His son was killed by Amyntas in the war of the Seven against Thebes.[17]
* Iasus, son of Sphelus (himself son of Bucolus), leader of the Athenians, was killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War.[18]
* Iasus, king of Cyprus, father of Dmetor. In the Odyssey, he appears in a story told (and made up) by Odysseus.[19]
* Iasus, father of Palinurus[20] and Iapis.[21]

## Notes

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1. ^ Pausanias, 5.14.7.
2. ^ Pausanias, 5.7.6.
3. ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.3.
4. ^ Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 1845
5. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.6
6. ^ Pausanias, 9.20.1.
7. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.8
8. ^ The form "Iasion" was also used by Pausanias and Aelian to refer to the father of Atalante.
9. ^ Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 217
10. ^ Apollodorus, 3.9.2.
11. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 70, 99.
12. ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338
13. ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.284: "the youngest daughter"; Pausanias, 9.36.8; see Strabo, 8.3.19
14. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.10
15. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1116
16. ^ Pausanias, 8.48.1.
17. ^ Statius, Thebaid 8.438
18. ^ Homer, Iliad 15.332 & 338
19. ^ Homer, Odyssey 17.443
20. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 5.843
21. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 12.392

## References

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* Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Callimachus, Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921. Internet Archive
* Callimachus, Works. A.W. Mair. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1921. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
* Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
* Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Bulfinch, Thomas (1979). "Stories of Gods and Heroes: Chapter XVIII: Meleager and Atalanta". Bulfinch's Mythology. Avenel Books. p. 138. ISBN 0-517-27415-9.
* Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0198147404.
* Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 556[usurped]

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