Iasus

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In Greek mythology, Iasus (; Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) or Iasius (; Ἰάσιος) was the name of several people:

• Iasus (Iasius), one of the DactyliPausanias, 5.14.7. or Korybantes.Pausanias, 5.7.6.
• Iasus, king of Argos.Apollodorus, 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, 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, 3.9.2.Hyginus, Fabulae 70, 99.
• Iasus (Iasius), father of King Amphion of Orchomenus. The latter married Persephone, daughter of Minyas,Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338 and fathered Chloris and Philomache who both married the twins, NeleusHomer, Odyssey 11.284: "the youngest daughter"; Pausanias, 9.36.8; see Strabo, 8.3.19 and Pelias,Apollodorus, 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, 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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• 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
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• 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.
• Virgil, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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