Βιας
The son of Amythaon and Idomene, the daughter of Pheres. His brother was Melampus, the seer, who is closely associated with his adventures (Table 1 and Table 21). When Bias wanted to marry Pero, the daughter of Neleus, he had to perform a task imposed by her father, namely, to steal the herds of Phylacus. The oxen were well guarded by a fierce dog but Melampus agreed to steal them on behalf of his brother and, when he bad been granted the hand of Pero by Neleus, he gave her up to Bias.
Subsequently, after Melampus had cured the daughters of King Proetus of their madness, he secured a third of the latter's kingdom for Bias, who set himself up in it (see Anaxagoras). When married to Pero, Bias fathered Talaus, the father of Adrastus (Table 1), Perialces, Laodocus, Areius and Alphesiboea. Later, when he was settled in Argos in the kingdom of Proetus, he married the latter's daughter, Lysippe. She was certainly the mother of his daughter Anaxibia who, according to some accounts, later married Pelias.
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Table of Sources:
- Hom. Od. 15, 242ff.
- schol. on Hom. Od. 11, 287
- Eustath. on Hom. p. 1685, 8ff.
- schol. on Pind. Nem. 9, 30
- schol. on Aeschylus, Suppl. 569
- schol. on Euripides, Phoen. 173
- Hdt. 9, 34
- schol. on Theocr. 3, 45
- schol. on Apoll. Rhod. Arg. 1, 18
- Prop. 2, 3, 51ff.
- Paus. 2, 18, 4; 2, 21, 2; 4, 34, 4; 4, 36, 3
- Apollod. Bibl. 1, 9, 10ff.; 2, 2, 2
- See also Melampus.