Bias (mythology)

For other uses, see Bias (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Bias (/ˈbaɪ.əs/; Ancient Greek: Βίας; Latin: Biantes) may refer to the following characters:

• Bias, a Megarian prince as a son of King Lelex^[1] and brother to Cleson and Pterelaus.^[2] 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.^[3]
• Bias, son of Amythaon and brother of Melampus.^[4]
• Bias, son of Melampus and Iphianira thus a nephew of the earlier Bias.^[5] But his name has been proposed to read "Abas", another son of Melampus.^[6]
• Bias, one of the Epigoni and son of Parthenopaeus, one of the Seven Against Thebes.^[7]
• Bias, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of King Priam of Troy by other women.^[8] He was the father of two Trojan warriors, Laogonus and Dardanus.^[9] In another account, Bias and his brothers, Dryops and Chorithan, were instead slain by Idomeneus.^[10]
• Bias, an Athenian soldier who supported Menestheus against the attacks of Hector.^[11]
• Bias, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.^[12]
• Bias, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.^[13] He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.^[14]

See also

• Naming citation for Jovian asteroid 38050 Bias

Notes

1. Pausanias, 1.39.6
2. Eustathius on Homer, p. 1473; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.747
3. Apollodorus, 3.15.5
4. Apollodorus, 1.9.10–11 & 2.2.2
5. Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.5
6. Apollonius Rhodius, 1.142; Apollodorus, 1.9; Pausanias, 1.4e
7. Hyginus, Fabulae 71
8. Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 90; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
9. Homer, Iliad 20.460
10. Dictys Cretensis, 4.7
11. Homer, Iliad 13.691
12. Homer, Iliad 4.295
13. Apollodorus, E.7.26–27
14. Apollodorus, E.7.33

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. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.