Iasus

In Greek mythology, Iasus (Ancient Greek: Ἴασος) or Iasius (Ancient Greek: Ἰάσιος) was the name of several individuals:
*Iasus, king of Argos. His genealogy is confused; according to different sources, he was:
**Son of Phoroneus, brother of Agenor and PelasgusScholia on Homer, Iliad, 3. 75Eustathius on Homer, 385. 40
**Son of Argus and either Evadne or PeithoScholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1116; on Orestes, 932
**Son of Argus Panoptes and Ismene, daughter of Asopus; possible father of IoPseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. 3
**Son of IoScholia on Odyssey, 18. 246Eustathius of Thessalonica on Iliad, 1845
**Son of Triopas and again brother of Pelasgus and Agenor; successor to Agenor on the throne;Pausanias, Desription of Greece, 2. 16. 1 possibly the father of Io by LeucaneScholia on Euripides, Orestes, 932
*Iasus (Iasius), 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.Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 2Hyginus, Fabulae, 70 & 99
*Iasus (Iasius), one of the DactyliPausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 14. 7 or Curetes.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 7. 6
*Iasius, son of Eleuther and father of Chaeresilaus.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 20. 2
*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
*Iasus, father of Phaedimus. His son was killed by Amyntas in the battle of Seven Against Thebes.Statius, Thebaid, 8. 438
*Iasus, father of Nepeia, who married King Olympus and gave her name to the plain of Nepeia near Cyzicus.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 1116
*Iasus (Iasius), possible father of Amphion.Homer, Odyssey, 11. 233Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 36. 8
* Iasius, winner of the horse-racing contest at the Olympic games held by Heracles.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 48. 1
*Iasius, same as Iasion.The form "Iasion" was also used by Pausanias and Aelian to refer to the father of Atalante.
==References==
==Sources==
*Smith, Wiliam. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 556
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Category:Greek Mythology