InGreek mythology,Thoas (Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift")^[1] may refer to the following figures:

• Thoas, a king ofLemnos saved by his daughterHypsipyle from the massacre by the Lemnian women. He was a son ofDionysus andAriadne, and sometimes identified withThoas, the king of theTaurians, below.
• Thoas, a king of theTaurians whenIphigenia became priestess ofArtemis. He is sometimes identified withThoas, the king ofLemnos above.
• Thoas, a king ofAetolia. He was the son ofAndraemon andGorge, and a Greek leader and hero in theTrojan War.
• Thoas, a king ofCorinth. He was a son ofOrnytion and a grandson ofSisyphus.
• Thoas, a son ofJason andHypsipyle, and a grandson ofThoas, the king of Lemnos (above). He was the twin brother ofEuneus.
• Thoas, theSpartan son ofIcarius, and the brother ofPenelope, the wife ofOdysseus.^[2] According to the mythographerApollodorus, Icarius and theNaiadnymphPeriboea had five sons: Thoas,Damasippus,Imeusimus,Aletes andPerileos, and a daughter Penelope.^[3] According toStrabo, however, the mother by Icarius of "Penelope and her brothers" wasPolycaste, the daughter ofLygaeus.^[4]
• Thoas (or Thoon?), aGiant who, according to the mythographerApollodorus, along with the GiantAgrius, was killed by theMoirai (Fates) with bronze clubs, during theGigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants and theOlympian gods.^[5]
• Thoas, anAthenian, who according toPlutarch, was the brother of Euneus andSolois, and accompaniedTheseus on his return from his expedition against theAmazons. This Thoas is different than theThoas (see above), who was the son of Jason and Hypsipyle, and who also had a brother namedEuneus.^[6]
• Thoas, a defender ofThebes in the war of theSeven against Thebes. He was killed byTydeus.^[7]
• Thoas, inHomer'sIliad, is aTrojan warrior killed byMenelaus during theTrojan War.^[8]
• Thoas, one of theSuitors ofPenelope who came fromDulichium along with other 56 wooers.^[9] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead byOdysseus with the help ofEumaeus,Philoetius, andTelemachus.^[10]
• Thoas, a companion ofAeneas inItaly. He was crushed with a stone, by Halesus an ally ofTurnus.^[11]

• Apollodorus,Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Grant, Michael, John Hazel,Who's Who in Classical Mythology, Routledge, 2004.ISBN 9781134509430.
• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Liddell, Henry George,Robert Scott.A Greek-English Lexicon. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Parada, Carlos,Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993.ISBN 978-91-7081-062-6.
• Plutarch,Theseus inLives, Volume I: Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin.Loeb Classical Library No. 46. Cambridge, Massachusetts:Harvard University Press, 1914.ISBN 978-0-674-99052-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo,Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. (1924).LacusCurtis,Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Books 6–14
• Smith, William;Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873).Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Statius,Statius with an English Translation by J. H. Mozley, Volume II,Thebaid, Books V–XII,Achilleid,Loeb Classical Library No. 207, London: William Heinemann, Ltd., New York: G. P. Putnamm's Sons, 1928.ISBN 978-0674992283.Internet Archive.
• Virgil,Aeneid, Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library

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• Set index articles on Greek mythology
• Gigantes
• Suitors of Penelope
• Characters in the Aeneid
• Characters in Seven against Thebes
• Mythological Athenians
• Mythological Laconians
• Mythological Thebans
• Theseus

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