Iasus
{{Short description|Name of several figures in Greek mythology}}
{{for|the town of ancient Laconia|Iasus (Laconia)}}
In Greek mythology, Iasus ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|.|ə|.|s|ə|s}}; Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) or Iasius ({{IPAc-en|aɪ|ˈ|eɪ|ʒ|ə|s}}; Ἰάσιος) was the name of several people:
- Iasus (Iasius), one of the DactyliPausanias, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.14.7 5.14.7]. or Curetes.Pausanias, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.7.6 5.7.6].
- Iasus, king of Argos.Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.1.3 2.1.3].
- Iasus, son of IoEustathius on Homer's Iliad 1845
- Iasius (IasionHesiod, Ehoiai 123.6), son of Eleuther and brother of Pierus. He was the father of ChaeresilausPausanias, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.20.1 9.20.1]. and Astreis.Hesiod, Ehoiai 123.8
- Iasius, another name of Iasion.The form "Iasion" was also used by Pausanias and Aelian to refer to the father of Atalante.
- Iasus (Iasius), the Arcadian father of AtalantaCallimachus, Hymn to Artemis 217 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.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.9.2 3.9.2].Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#70 70], [https://topostext.org/work/206#99 99].
- Iasus (Iasius), father of King Amphion of Orchomenus. The latter married Persephone, daughter of Minyas,Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain06dindgoog/page/496/mode/1up?view=theater 11.281] citing Pherecydes [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA338 fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338] and fathered Chloris and Phylomache who both married the twins, NeleusHomer, Odyssey 11.284: "the youngest daughter"; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.36.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Iasius 9.36.8]; see Strabo, 8.3.19 and Pelias,Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Phylomache 1.9.10] 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.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.1116
- Iasius, winner of the horse-racing contest at the Olympic games held by Heracles.Pausanias, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.48.1 8.48.1].
- Iasus, father of Phaedimus. His son was killed by Amyntas in the war of the Seven against Thebes.Statius, Thebaid 8.438
- Iasus, son of Sphelus (himself son of Bucolus), leader of the Athenians, was killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War.Homer, Iliad 15.332 & 338
- Iasus, king of Cyprus, father of Dmetor. In the Odyssey, he appears in a story told (and made up) by Odysseus.Homer, Odyssey 17.443
- Iasus, father of PalinurusVirgil, Aeneid 5.843 and Iapis.Virgil, Aeneid 12.392
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References
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- 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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
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|publisher=Avenel Books
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