Editing Poeas

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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Poeas''', or '''Poias''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Ποίας) was a king of [[Meliboea (Magnesia)|Meliboea]] or Malis (Maleae) and one of the [[Argonauts]].<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Poeas 1.9.16]</ref>

== Family ==
Poeas was the son of King [[Thaumacus (mythology)|Thaumacus]]<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Poeas 1.9.16]; [[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] ad [[Homer]], p. 329.6; [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#Th307.3 Thaumakia]''</ref> of [[Thaumacia]] and the father of the hero [[Philoctetes]] by [[Methone (Greek myth)|Methone]].<ref>Eustathius ad Homer, p. 323</ref>

== Mythology ==
As an Argonaut, Poeas is identified as the greatest archer of the group. When facing the giant Talos, some accounts say [[Medea]] drugged the bronze giant and Poeas shot an arrow to poison him in his heel.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%201.9.26&lang=original 1.9.26]</ref> Other sources cited his son Philoctetes as one of the Argonauts instead of him.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 14</ref>

More famously, Poeas had a role in the apotheosis of [[Heracles]], his friend.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Library:book=1:chapter=9&highlight=thaumacus 1.9.16]</ref> When Heracles realized he was dying from poisonous centaur blood he demanded a funeral pyre built and lit once he stood atop it. As none of his own men would light the pyre, a passer-by (Poeas) was asked by Heracles to light it. In return for this favor Heracles bestowed his famed bow and poison arrows upon Poeas.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%201.9.26&lang=original 2.7.7]</ref> Other versions, had Philoctetes as the passer-by or that Poeas assigned Philoctetes the task.

== 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].
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,'' edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

[[Category:Argonauts]]
[[Category:Mythological Greek archers]]
[[Category:Mythological kings of Thessaly]]
[[Category:Mythological Thessalians]]
[[Category:Mythology of Heracles]]


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