Poeas
Ποίας
(Ποίας), a son of Phylacus or Thaumacus, and husband of Methone, by whom he became the father of Philoctetes (Hom. Od. 3.190; Enstath. ad Horn. p. 323). He is mentioned among the Argonauts (Apollod. 1.9.16; comp. Pind. P. 1.53), and is said to have killed with an arrow, Talaus, in Crete (Apollod. 1.9.26). At the request of Heracles, Poeas kindled the pile on which the hero burnt himself, and was rewarded with the arrows of Heracles. (Apollod. 2.7.7; comp. HERACLES and PHILOCTES.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.