Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Thoas.
The gallery
Hypsipyle Saves Thoas
Robinet Testard, c. 1496–1498
BnF illumination (Français 599): Hypsipyle smuggles her father Thoas from the Lemnian massacre — medieval Boccaccio reception of the Argonaut island's spared king.
Hypsipyle Sparing Her Father Thoas
Unknown, c. 15th–16th century
Woodcut: Hypsipyle saves Thoas while Opheltes dies in the background — the Lemnian king as father spared and later myth's crossroads.
In play
Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
Book I — Thoas' Lemnos after the women kill the men; Hypsipyle rules in her father's stead when the Argo lands.
Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus' Lemnian crime — Thoas hidden in a chest and cast to sea, the father Hypsipyle alone would not kill.
Thoas (king of Lemnos)
Dionysus' son, Hypsipyle's father — spared when the Lemnian women kill every other man on the island.