Bias (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Bias (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) may refer to the following characters:

• Bias, a Megarian prince as a son of King Lelex<ref>Pausanias, 1.39.6</ref> and brother to Cleson and Pterelaus.<ref>Eustathius on Homer, p. 1473; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.747</ref> He was killed by his nephew Pylas, also a Megarian king. After the murder, Pylas gave the kingdom to the deposed king of Athens, Pandion and later founded the city of Pylos in Peloponnesus.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.15.5</ref>
• Bias, son of Amythaon and brother of Melampus.<ref>Apollodorus, 1.9.10–11 & 2.2.2</ref>
• Bias, son of Melampus and Iphianira thus a nephew of the earlier Bias.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.5</ref> But his name has been proposed to read "Abas", another son of Melampus.<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 1.142; Apollodorus, 1.9; Pausanias, 1.4e</ref>
• Bias, one of the Epigoni and son of Parthenopaeus, one of the Seven Against Thebes.<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 71</ref>
• Bias, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of King Priam of Troy by other women.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 90; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7</ref> He was the father of two Trojan warriors, Laogonus and Dardanus.<ref>Homer, Iliad 20.460</ref> In another account, Bias and his brothers, Dryops and Chorithan, were instead slain by Idomeneus.<ref>Dictys Cretensis, 4.7</ref>
• Bias, an Athenian soldier who supported Menestheus against the attacks of Hector.<ref>Homer, Iliad 13.691</ref>
• Bias, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.<ref>Homer, Iliad 4.295</ref>
• Bias, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.<ref>Apollodorus, E.7.26–27</ref> He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.<ref>Apollodorus, E.7.33</ref>

See also

• Template:MoMP for Jovian asteroid 38050 Bias

References

• 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• 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.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Template:ISBN. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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