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{{Infobox deity
| type = Greek
| name = Thasus
| deity_of = Eponym of [[Thasos (town)|Thasos]]
| member_of = the [[Phoenicia]]n Royal Family
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| abode = Phoenicia
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| parents = (a) [[Poseidon]]<br>(b) [[Agenor]]<br>(c) [[Phoenix (son of Agenor)|Phoenix]]<br>(d) [[Cilix]]
| siblings = (b) [[Europa (consort of Zeus)|Europa]], Cilix and Phoenix<br>(c) Europa and  [[Cadmus]]<br> (d) [[Thebe (Greek myth)|Thebe]]
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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Thasus''' or '''Thasos''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|θ|eɪ|s|ə|s}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|θ|eɪ|z|ə|s}}; [[Ancient Greek]]: Θάσος) was a son of [[Poseidon]]<ref name=":04">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=Thasus 3.1.1]</ref> (or, in other versions, [[Agenor]],<ref name=":1">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.25.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=5:chapter=25&highlight=Thasus 5.25.12]; [[Scholia]]st on ''[[Euripides]], [[The Phoenician Women|Phoenissae]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=euripides 6]</ref> [[Phoenix (son of Agenor)|Phoenix]]<ref name=":0">[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' [https://topostext.org/work/489#32 32]</ref> or [[Cilix]]<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=1&highlight=Thasus 3.1.1] with [[Pherecydes of Athens|Pherecydes]] as the authority</ref>). In the stories, he was a [[Phoenicia]]n prince and one of those who set out from Phoenicia in search of [[Europa (consort of Zeus)|Europa]] (Thasus' sister<ref name=":0" />). His brother, Cadmus, gave him a part of the army and left him on an island (i.e. [[Thasos]]) where he "founded" the eponymous town of [[Thasos (town)|Thasos]].<ref>[[Herodotus]], [https://topostext.org/work/22#2.44 2.44]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.25.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=5:chapter=25&highlight=Thasus 5.25.12]; [[Pseudo-Scymnus|Pseudo-Scymnos]], ''Circuit de la terre'' 646 ff.; Conon, ''Narrations'' [https://topostext.org/work/489#37 37]</ref>

== Notes ==
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==References==
*[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]]'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*[[Herodotus]], ''The Histories'' with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|0-674-99133-8}}. [https://topostext.org/work/22 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0125 Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Pausanias (geographer)|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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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[[Category:Children of Poseidon]]
[[Category:Agenorides]]
[[Category:Princes in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Phoenician characters in Greek mythology]]
[[Category:Mythology of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)]]
[[Category:Ancient Thasos]]

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