Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Thessalus.
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Iliad
Homer
Book II's Catalogue of Ships — Pheidippus and Antiphus, sons of Thessalus son of Heracles, lead the Coan contingent of thirty ships to Troy.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus keeps Thessalus among Heracles' sons — the Coan king whose name also anchors traditions about Thessaly's eponym.
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Cos (island)
The Dodecanese island whose Homeric kings descend from Thessalus son of Heracles — the hero-king behind the Coan ships at Troy.
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Thessalus
Son of Heracles and king of Cos — father of the Homeric Coan leaders, distinct from Jason's son of the same name.