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Thoas

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Thoas
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Individual
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Aliases

2

Thoas of Aetolia

Descriptive reference · Direct

son of Andraemon

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

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Claims

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·Direct

Thoas spears Peirous through chest and lungs, then kills him with a sword; though tall and valiant, he is driven back from the body by topknotted Thracians with long spears.

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“Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs. Thoas came close up to him, pulled the spear out of his chest, and then drawing his sword, smote him in the middle of the belly so that he died; but he did not strip him of his armour, for his Thracian comrades, men who wear their hair in a tuft at the top of their heads, stood round the body and kept him off with their long spears for all his great stature and valour; so he was driven back”
·Direct

Thoas son of Andraemon is among the nine Achaean champions who rise to answer Hector’s challenge.

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“forthwith nine men started to their feet. Foremost of all uprose King Agamemnon, and after him brave Diomed the son of Tydeus. Next were the two Ajaxes, men clothed in valour as with a garment, and then Idomeneus, and Meriones his brother in arms. After these Eurypylus son of Euaemon, Thoas the son of Andraemon, and Ulysses also rose”
·Direct

Thoas leads the Aetolians, throws well, stands firm in close fighting, and is difficult to surpass in divided debate.

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“Thoas son of Andraemon, leader of the Aetolians, a man who could throw a good throw, and who was staunch also in close fight, while few could surpass him in debate when opinions were divided”

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·Direct
“Thoas”
·Direct
“Thoas of Aetolia”
·Disguised
“Thoas son of Andraemon”
·Direct
“Thoas son of Andraemon, leader of the Aetolians”
·Direct
“Thoas, Meriones”
·Direct
“made a present of it to Thoas”

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 49

Thoas, son of Andraemon, commanded the Aetolians, who dwelt in Pleuron, Olenus, Pylene, Chalcis by the sea, and rocky Calydon, for the great king Oeneus had now no sons living, and was himself dead, as was also goldenhaired Meleager, who had been set over the Aetolians to be their king. And with Thoas there came forty ships.