In Greek mythology, Thasus or Thasos ( or ; Ancient Greek: Θάσος) was a son of Poseidon[Apollodorus, 3.1.1] (or, in other versions, Agenor,[Pausanias, 5.25.12; on Euripides, Phoenissae 6] Phoenix[Conon, Narrations 32] or Cilix[Apollodorus, 3.1.1 with Pherecydes as the authority]). In the stories, he was a prince and one of those who set out from Phoenicia in search of Europa (Thasus' sister[Herodotus, 2.44; Pausanias, 5.25.12; Pseudo-Scymnus, Circuit de la terre 646 ff.; Conon, Narrations 37]
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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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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Conon , Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. . Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
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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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
