person
Thoas
King of Lemnos and father of Hypsipyle, whom she saved when the Lemnian women slew their men; grandson of Minos.
Reading notes
- The Heroides §6 Minoan Thoas
Thoas, king of Lemnos and Hypsipyle's father, descended from Minos through Bacchus and Ariadne.
- The Heroides §6 Thoas
Hypsipyle's father, whom she rescued from the Lemnian massacre — set against Medea's betrayal of her own father.
- Letters from the Black Sea §3.2 Thoas held the realm
Thoas, king of the Tauri on the Maeotic shore, in whose reign the captive Greeks Orestes and Pylades were brought to the altar of the Tauric Diana.
- Sorrows §4.4 Thoas
King of the Tauri, in whose land Iphigenia tended the bloody rites of Diana.