Thoas
2. A son of Dionysus and Ariadne. (Schol.
ad Apollon. Rhod. 3.997;
Stat. Theb. 4.769.)
He was king of Lemnos and married to Myrina, by whom he became the father of Hypsipyle and Sicinus. (
Hom. Il. 14.230;
Diod. 5.79; Schol.
ad Apollon. 1.601; Hygin.
Fab. 15, 120 ; Tzetz.
ad Lycoph. 1374.) When the Lemnian women all the men in the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas, and concealed him. (
Apollod. 1.9.17.)
Afterwards, however, he was discovered by the other women, and killed (
Apollod. 3.6.4), or he escaped to Tauris (Hygin.
Fab. 15), or to the island of Oenoe near Euboea, which was henceforth called Sicinus. (Schol.
ad Apollon. 1.624.)