InGreek mythology, the nameAbas (/ă'-bas/;Ancient Greek: Ἄβας;gen.: Ἄβαντος means "guileless" or "good-hearted") is attributed to several individuals:

• Abas, king ofArgos.^[1]
• Abas, son ofPoseidon andArethusa.^[2] AThracian by birth, Abas founded a tribe known as the Abantians or Abantes. Abas and his Abantian followers migrated to the island ofEuboea, where he subsequently reigned as king. He was father ofCanethus^[3] andChalcodon,^[4] and through the latter grandfather ofElephenor, who is known to have accidentally killed him.^{[5][AI-generated source?]} In some accounts, Abas was also called the father ofDias, Arethusa,Alcon,Canthus^[6] (alternatively the son of Canethus and thus, his grandson).
• Abas, son ofMetaneira who was changed byDemeter into a lizard, because he mocked the goddess when she had come on her wanderings into the house of his mother, and drank eagerly to quench her thirst.^[7] Other traditions relate the same story of a boy,Ascalabus, and call his motherMisme.^[8]
• Abas, anArgive seer, son ofMelampus.^[9] He was the father ofCoeranus,^[10]Idmon,^[11] andLysimache.^[9]
• Abas, companion ofPerseus who killedPelates, theCinyphian ally ofPhineus, during the battle that broke out at the court of KingCepheus ofEthiopia for the hand ofAndromeda.^[12]
• Abas, aCentaur who attended the wedding ofPirithous andHippodamia.^[13]
• Abas, defender ofThebes in the war of theSeven against Thebes. He and his sonsCydon andArgus were killed in the battle.^[14]
• Abas, a Theban charioteer during the war of theSeven against Thebes. At the beginning of the battle, he is pierced byPheres with a spear and left groaning for his life.^[15]
• Abas, son of theTrojanEurydamas and brother ofPolyidus; he fought in theTrojan War and was killed byDiomedes.^[16]
• Abas, servant of KingLycomedes on the island ofScyros. His job was to keep an eye on shipping traffic from the watchtower and to report directly to the king whether ships arrive at the port. WhenOdysseus came to the island with his ship to persuadeAchilles, who was concealed as a girl, to take part in the War againstTroy, the dutiful Abas was the first to report to the king that unknown sails were approaching the coast.^[17]
• Abas, another defender of Troy, was killed bySthenelus.^[18]
• Abas, one ofDiomedes's companions, whomAphrodite turned into a swan.^[19]

In theAeneid, the nameAbas belongs to two companions ofAeneas:

• Abas, captain whose ship was routed in the storm offCarthage.^[20]
• Abas, anEtruscan ally fromPopulonia in the war against theRutulians and the Latians.^[21] He was later on killed byLausus, the man who led one thousand soldiers from the town ofAgylla.^[22]

• Antoninus Liberalis,The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853–1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 1, A-Ari, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider,Brill, 2002.ISBN 978-90-04-12258-1.Online version at Brill.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Most, G. W.,Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments,Loeb Classical Library No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press, 2007, 2018.ISBN 978-0-674-99721-9.Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Parada, Carlos,Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993.ISBN 978-91-7081-062-6.
• 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.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
• Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Papinius Statius,The Achilleid translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.Online version at the theoi.com
• Publius Papinius Statius,The Achilleid. Vol. II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Papinius Statius,The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• 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.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Schmitz, Leonhard (1867)."Abas". InWilliam Smith (ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston:Little, Brown and Company. pp. 1–2.
• Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Abas".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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