person
Thoas
also: Θόας
Son of Andraemon, an Aetolian leader at Troy who springs up to run for reinforcements in Odysseus's cloak-trick story, leaving his own cloak behind for the freezing 'old man' (the disguised Odysseus himself in a nested tale).
Reading notes
- The Iliad §2.441 Thoas
Son of Andraemon, an Aetolian leader at Troy, named in the Catalogue of Ships and active in several later battle scenes.
- The Odyssey §14.499 Thoas, son of Andraemon
In Odysseus's nested cloak-trick anecdote, the Aetolian leader who leaps up to fetch reinforcements, leaving his cloak behind for the cold 'old man' — Odysseus himself in disguise within his own story.