Several characters in Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, Bias (; Ancient Greek: Βίας; Latin: Biantes) may refer to the following characters:
- Bias, a Megarian prince as a son of King Lelex[1] and brother to Cleson and Pterelaus.[2] He was killed by his nephew Pylas, also a Megarian king. After the murder, Pylas gave the kingdom to the deposed king of Athens, Pandion and later founded the city of Pylos in Peloponnesus.[3]
- Bias, son of Amythaon and brother of Melampus.[4]
- Bias, son of Melampus and Iphianira thus a nephew of the earlier Bias.[5] But his name has been proposed to read "Abas", another son of Melampus.[6]
- Bias, one of the Epigoni and son of Parthenopaeus, one of the Seven Against Thebes.[7]
- Bias, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of King Priam of Troy by other women.[8] He was the father of two Trojan warriors, Laogonus and Dardanus.[9] In another account, Bias and his brothers, Dryops and Chorithan, were instead slain by Idomeneus.[10]
- Bias, an Athenian soldier who supported Menestheus against the attacks of Hector.[11]
- Bias, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.[12]
- Bias, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.[13] He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[14]
- ^ Pausanias, 1.39.6
- ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 1473; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.747
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.15.5
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.10–11 & 2.2.2
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.5
- ^ Apollonius Rhodius, 1.142; Apollodorus, 1.9; Pausanias, 1.4e
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 71
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 90; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
- ^ Homer, Iliad 20.460
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
- ^ Homer, Iliad 13.691
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.295
- ^ Apollodorus, E.7.26–27
- ^ Apollodorus, E.7.33