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For the plant bugs, see [Mirini](/source/Mirini).

In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), **Poeas**, or **Poias** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Ποίας) was a king of [Meliboea](/source/Meliboea_(Magnesia)) or Malis (Maleae) and one of the [Argonauts](/source/Argonauts).[1]

## Family

Poeas was the son of King [Thaumacus](/source/Thaumacus_(mythology))[2] of [Thaumacia](/source/Thaumacia) and the father of the hero [Philoctetes](/source/Philoctetes) by [Methone](/source/Methone_(Greek_myth)).[3]

## Mythology

As an Argonaut, Poeas is identified as the greatest archer of the group. When facing the giant Talos, some accounts say [Medea](/source/Medea) drugged the bronze giant and Poeas shot an arrow to poison him in his heel.[4] Other sources cited his son Philoctetes as one of the Argonauts instead of him.[5]

More famously, Poeas had a role in the apotheosis of [Heracles](/source/Heracles), his friend.[6] When Heracles realized he was dying from poisonous centaur blood he demanded a funeral pyre built and lit once he stood atop it. As none of his own men would light the pyre, a passer-by (Poeas) was asked by Heracles to light it. In return for this favor Heracles bestowed his famed bow and poison arrows upon Poeas.[7] Other versions, had Philoctetes as the passer-by or that Poeas assigned Philoctetes the task.

## Notes

1. Apollodorus, [1.9.16](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Poeas)

1. Apollodorus, [1.9.16](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Poeas); [Eustathius](/source/Eustathius_of_Thessalonica) ad [Homer](/source/Homer), p. 329.6; [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium), s.v. *[Thaumakia](https://topostext.org/work/241#Th307.3)*

1. Eustathius ad Homer, p. 323

1. [Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), [1.9.26](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%201.9.26&lang=original)

1. [Hyginus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus), *Fabulae* 14

1. Apollodorus, [1.9.16](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Library:book=1:chapter=9&highlight=thaumacus)

1. Apollodorus, [2.7.7](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%201.9.26&lang=original)

## References

- [Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), *The Library* with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022) [Greek text available from the same website](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021).
- [Gaius Julius Hyginus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus), *Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus* translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [Online version at the Topos Text Project.](https://topostext.org/work/206)
- [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium), *Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,* edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [Online version at the Topos Text Project.](https://topostext.org/work/241)

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