Iasus

The name of various mythical persons:

  1. A son of Eleuther, and father of Chaeresileus.1
  2. The father of Amphion, and king of the Minyans.
  3. A son of Sphelus, the commander of the Athenians in the Trojan war, was slain by Aeneas.3
  4. The father of Dmetor, king of Cyprus.

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 20.2.
  2. Homer. Odyssey xii, 282; Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 36, in fin.
  3. Homer. Iliad xv, 332 ff.
  4. Homer. Odyssey xvii, 443.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.