In Greek mythology, Bias (; ; ) may refer to the following characters: Bias, a Megarian prince as a son of King LelexPausanias, 1.39.6 and brother to Cleson and Pterelaus.Eustathius on Homer, p. 1473; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.747 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.Apollodorus, 3.15.5 Bias, son of Amythaon and brother of Melampus.Apollodorus, 1.9.10–11 & 2.2.2 Bias, son of Melampus and Iphianira thus a nephew of the earlier Bias.Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.5 But his name has been proposed to read "Abas", another son of Melampus.Apollonius Rhodius, 1.142; Apollodorus, 1.9; Pausanias, 1.4e Bias, one of the Epigoni and son of Parthenopaeus, one of the Seven Against Thebes.Hyginus, Fabulae 71 Bias, a Trojan prince as one of the sons of King Priam of Troy by other women.Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 90; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7 Bias and his brothers, Dryops and Chorithan, were slain by Idomeneus.Dictys Cretensis, 4.7 Bias, father of two Trojan warriors, Laogonus and Dardanus.Homer, Iliad 20.460 Bias, an Athenian soldier who supported Menestheus against the attacks of Hector.Homer, Iliad 13.691 Bias, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.Homer, Iliad 4.295 Bias, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with either 56 other wooers (according to Apollodorus),Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27 or 51 (according to Homer).Homer, Odyssey 16.247. He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.Apollodorus, E.7.33
See also for Jovian asteroid 38050 Bias
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