Thasus
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{{Infobox deity
| type = Greek
| name = Thasus
| deity_of = Eponym of Thasos
| member_of = the Phoenician Royal Family
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| abode = Phoenicia
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| parents = (a) Poseidon
(b) Agenor
(c) Phoenix
(d) Cilix
| siblings = (b) Europa, Cilix and Phoenix
(c) Europa and Cadmus
(d) Thebe
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In Greek mythology, Thasus or Thasos ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|θ|eɪ|s|ə|s}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|θ|eɪ|z|ə|s}}; Ancient Greek: Θάσος) was a son of PoseidonApollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=Thasus 3.1.1] (or, in other versions, Agenor,Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.25.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=5:chapter=25&highlight=Thasus 5.25.12]; Scholiast on Euripides, Phoenissae [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=euripides 6] PhoenixConon, Narrations [https://topostext.org/work/489#32 32] or CilixApollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=Thasus 3.1.1] with Pherecydes as the authority). In the stories, he was a Phoenician prince and one of those who set out from Phoenicia in search of Europa (Thasus' sister). His brother, Cadmus, gave him a part of the army and left him on an island (i.e. Thasos) where he "founded" the eponymous town of Thasos.Herodotus, [https://topostext.org/work/22#2.44 2.44]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.25.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=5:chapter=25&highlight=Thasus 5.25.12]; Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 646 ff.; Conon, Narrations [https://topostext.org/work/489#37 37]
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References
- 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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|0-674-99133-8}}. [https://topostext.org/work/22 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0125 Greek text available at 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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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Category:Princes in Greek mythology
Category:Phoenician characters in Greek mythology
Category:Mythology of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
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