#thoas

"Because of this Apollo destroyed almost all the army, partly by famine, partly by pestilence. And so Agamemnon sent back Chryseis, though she was pregnant, to the priest. Though she claimed to be untouched by him, when her time came she bore Chryses the Younger, and said she had conceived by Apollo.

Later, when Chryses was about to return Iphigenia and Orestes to Thoas, he [Chryses the Elder] learned that they were children of Agamemnon, and revealed to Chryses his [grand]son the truth—that they were brothers and that he was a son of Agamemnon. Then Chryses, thus informed, with Orestes his brother, killed Thoas, and from there they came safe to Mycenae with the statue of Diana.

To Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, a messenger came, falsely saying that her brother and Pylades had been sacrificed in Taurica to Diana. When Aletes, Aegisthus'son, heard that no-one of the race of the Atreidae survived, he seized the kingly power in Mycenae. But Electra went to Delphi to inquire about her brother's violent death. She came thee the same day that Iphigenia and Orestes arrived. The same messenger who had reported about Orestes, said that Iphigenia was the murderess of her brother. When Electra heard this, she seized a burning firebrand from the altar, and in her ignorance would have blinded her sister Iphigenia if Orestes had not intervened. After this recognition they came to Mycenae, and Orestes killed Aletes, son of Aegisthus, and would have killed Erigone, daughter of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, but Diana rescued her and made her a priestess in the Attic land." -Hyginus, Fabulae

GOD I LOVE HYGINUS CAN ME MAKE HYGINUS THE MAIN GUY WE GET STUFF FROM NOW ON. do I even need to add more. in later versions thoas is trying to marry iphegenia against her will. Ok I guess I did add more. either way love it.

i swear there is a insane iphegenia retelling full novel out there waiting to be written and its not me cuz I'm mostly a perseus guy.

Diothoa doodle

Okay so im trying to think of headcanons for Thoas of Calydon right now

Yk, one of the guys who volunteered to fight Hector in the Iliad and also Diomedes' paternal cousin

Yesterday i learned that his mother - Gorge - took Meleagers shield when he refused to fight (yk the whole Iliad deal Phoenix yaps about to Achilles in book 9 of the iliad) and this women just fights in his stead

So; moving from that it means that Gorge was old enough to fight during the war in Calydon

Meaning she wouldve likely been old enough to marry not too soon after - marrying Andreamon and then.....how old was Thoas? I had the perception that hes described as young in the Iliad

If hed been born a couple years after Meleager death - would he have met Tydeus?

If he was born later - why was he born late? Does he have older siblings? Was there another reason Gorge and Andreamon only had a son later?

In both scenarios, would he have fought with the Epigoni? Would he have witnessed the events of the Seven? If he did - did his father send aid to Diomedes' cause, or did they refuse to join? Did Thoas join against his fathers wishes?

Whats Thoas' relationship to the three gods of the region? (Ares, Artemis, Dioynsos keep showing up in the myths there)

Was Thoas the one to inform Diomedes about his grandfather - maybe traveling to Argos for it? Did he ask for aid to expell his uncles and cousins and save his grandfather?

What caused Thoas and Andreamon to become Oeneus' successors - and not Diomedes?

Did Thoas and Diomedes like each other or hate each other or didnt habor any feelings for each other? Did they ever interact?

When Diomedes got exiled from Argos, did he go to Thoas first?