Name of several figures in Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, Iasus (; Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) or Iasius (; 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]
- ^ Pausanias, 5.14.7.
- ^ Pausanias, 5.7.6.
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.3.
- ^ Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 1845
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.6
- ^ Pausanias, 9.20.1.
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.8
- ^ The form "Iasion" was also used by Pausanias and Aelian to refer to the father of Atalante.
- ^ Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 217
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.9.2.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 70, 99.
- ^ Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes [fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338]
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.284: "the youngest daughter"; Pausanias, 9.36.8; see Strabo, 8.3.19
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.10
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1116
- ^ Pausanias, 8.48.1.
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 8.438
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.332 & 338
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 17.443
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 5.843
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 12.392